From: "Jeff Raymond"
<jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] GNAA Deleted!
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:10:41 -0600 (CST)
Steve Summit wrote:
Have there really been *twelve* more attempts?
(The fact that it
took that many has got to say something...)
Most of them were speedy kept. For whatever reason, we speedy deleted
this instance, which puts the whole operation in question.
This is when we start looking incredibly dumb as an organization when we
delete articles about subjects that obviously exist, are obviously well
know, and are actually verifiable, but because we can't bring ourselves to
trust a source that isn't available in dead tree form somewhere, we won't
have the article. Doesn't make a lot of sense.
-Jeff
I think it looks pretty good that we have a standard that we don't accept
original research, even if said research can be easily done online. That
standard makes us more professional and more worthy or trust and respect.
The question isn't whether "dead tree" sources exist, but whether *any
non-trivial coverage* in *any independent source* exists. It turns out it
doesn't, in this case; at least nobody was able to pony it up. There are
certainly articles that are well sourced without any dead trees being
involved; this wasn't one of them.
Tony/GTBacchus
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