[WikiEN-l] New policy proposal

Sun Dec 12 11:58:12 UTC 2004

David Gerard wrote:

>Charles Matthews (charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com) [041212 09:32]:
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>>For the record, I think POV pushing is the single problem in relation to WP
>>to which we don't have a working solution, as of end 2004.  So I'm entirely
>>behind Jimbo's analysis of the challenge.  We have the eyeballs to
>>fact-check with, in many areas; we have the eyeballs to see what is too
>>vague to be checkable, as a practical matter if not as a legalistic
>>definition.  What we don't have, in practice, and what I feel the lack of,
>>is the way of defining a 'pattern of POV editing' that would warrant warning
>>and then sanctions.  This ought to be seen as the current defining issue.
>>Anyway, this all points back to the ArbCom elections as the real focus of
>>Wiki-en's public life; which is only right and proper.
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>What we need is to encourage a culture of including references. I'm trying
>to get myself better at this ... If we can get the reference syntax
>implemented, that would help tremendously. (And I'm dreaming of it doing
>fancy reference-indexing things.)
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>I would love love love it if the standard edit boilerplate included the
>following as the first paragraph, on its own:
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>    Have you remembered to include your references?
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>- with the word "references" being a link to a page on how to reference
>things. (Inline links, a mention in ==External links and references== ...
>Do we have a suitable page?) What would it take for this to happen? Can
>anyone see any insuperable problems with putting this in?
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[[Wikipedia:Cite sources]]? I'm not sure if they cover inline 
references, though.

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])