[WikiEN-l] Re: Turn off AfD

Thu Dec 15 09:40:15 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>On 12/13/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>In all fairness Googling, then adding the information is a lot of work.
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>It's a couple of minutes.  And at the end of it you have a useful
>article instead of a hole in the ground.
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Not really, but then I've been too focused on vocabulary where the 
"evidence" is from blogs or other POV pushing sites.  Or you find people 
spamming the internet to get their new pet word adopted.

>>Complaints about deleting unsourced material resulted in a separate page
>>called Requests for Verification (RfV) where supporters have a full
>>month to find sources.
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>This sounds like exactly what I'm suggesting for Wikipedia.
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Of course the article is not deleted while waiting for that month to pass.

Ec