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

Sat Dec 3 18:42:39 UTC 2005

Brian wrote:

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> Walter van Kalken wrote:
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>> daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:
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>>> Is it too much to ask that contributions to Wikipedia be correct? 
>>> That is  news to me.
>>>
>>> Danny
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>> There is a difference between an entry being correct and someone 
>> having to defend every letter of it.
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> Britannica has to defend every letter of it before they can get 
> published. The same is true for all other major encyclopedias. Why 
> wouldn't it be true for us? Aren't we trying to make an encyclopedia 
> here? 

Wikipedia is based on mutual trust. I trust that you put valid info on 
there. I ask you for the same trust. Now asking me to go and dig up were 
the hell I learned some things in my 32 years on this planet is a bit to 
much. If I actually research something especially for wikipedia I put 
sources on there(which is most of my contributions) If I just happen to 
know something I do not. You just have to trust my statement. Wikipedia 
is based on trust! Now if you say you cannot trust me I have to put 
about a 1000 articles on nl: and about 20 or so on en: on votes for 
deletion.

Waerth/Walter