On 12/12/05, JAY JG <jayjg(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I've run into editors who have been editing
for years (much longer than me),
but haven't felt the need to abide by various newfangled rules like Cite
your sources, Verifiability and Neutral Point of View, which have often been
completely ignored, especially in the early days.
NPOV has never been completely ignored, not even close. Even in the
early days. Though I still can't stand the Sanger/Wales definition of
the concept or the promulgation of its usage.
And verifiability has pretty much always been a major bugbear. The
only rule which is significantly new is Cite Your Sources, and until
the software does a better job of making it dramatically easier for
users to do so, it will continue to be a problem.
Non-empty edit summaries should be mandatory except for edits marked as minor.
That sounds like an encouragement to mark everything minor, or at least
to have a stock of boilerplate to stick in.
Ec