[Foundation-l] Enforcing WP:CITE the Soi case

Fri Dec 2 18:30:37 UTC 2005

Ray Saintonge wrote:

> Walter van Kalken wrote:
>
>>>> Having citations is a good thing but please realise that it is best 
>>>> used when controversies arise.
>>>
>>>
>>> Having citations is fundamental to being a good reference work.
>>>
>>> This is *not* ( I say it again ) related to deletion policy.
>>>
>>> SJ 
>>
>>
>> Yes SJ you will be able to handle it in a correct matter and so will 
>> many other wikipedians. But you must admit we have a group of users 
>> who will read this and take it as a golden rule and start upsetting 
>> people. There are lots of wikipedians who simply do not read 
>> something as a whole. They just read MUST CITE and that is what 
>> they'll remember and they go on causing havoc. And it will be worse 
>> in other languages. More than once I had to stop somebody who was 
>> citing english wikipedia rules which are not applicable to nl.wikipedia.
>>
>> Now you and me unfortunately do not have the time to watch the 
>> respective wikis we work on 24 hours a day. So before you start 
>> writing this down please thank about it. 
>
>
> It's always comforting to hear voices of reason. :-)
>
> Unfortunately those who fixate on "MUST CITE" are also prone to ignore 
> <big><bold>MUST USE COMMON SENSE</bold></big>.  Sigh!  Is a four word 
> rule so much more difficult than a two word rule?  ... even when you 
> point out that there is an identical word in both?
>
> Ec 

My experience is that we have a group of users for whom using common 
sense unfortunately is beyond their grasp. You should know that by now. 
Many people want security in life and rules give security to them so 
they unfortunately fixate more on the rule part than common sense part :(

Waerth/Walter