[WikiEN-l] Fwd: "Reliable sources" guideline being treated as absolute policy

Tue Nov 28 21:48:59 UTC 2006

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From: Rob Smith <nobs03 at gmail.com>
Date: Nov 28, 2006 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] "Reliable sources" guideline being treated as
absolute policy
To: nobs03 at gmail.com

On 11/28/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:

> For a subtle guy like you....
>
> Fred
>

On 11/28/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/11/06, Rob Smith <nobs03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> when you look at the *other* edits made at the same time...

> ...you find that the material to which the source referred was taken
> out, and the editor simply took six edits to do it all. Leaving the
> source in, if the information to which it refers is gone, would be,
> er, somewhat pointless and misleading.
>

Ohhh, um here's a few

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Dickstein_%28congressman%29&diff=next&oldid=78764570

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Dodd_%28Congressional_candidate%29&diff=next&oldid=32832299

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Fitzgerald_%28adviser%29&diff=89879958&oldid=78775686

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lud_Ullman&diff=next&oldid=40245700

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Perazich&diff=next&oldid=40251857

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Setaro&diff=prev&oldid=78758141

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Lauterbach&action=history

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jenny_Levy_Miller&diff=prev&oldid=40344525

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Fahy&diff=next&oldid=40345233

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Plourde&diff=prev&oldid=78759205

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonia_Steinman_Gold&diff=next&oldid=40246972