[WikiEN-l] Verifiability

Fri Dec 16 00:59:05 UTC 2005

Well, there is a good reason I don't read most of your posts. This  
nonsense is a good illustration of why. Of course the POV fakers are  
always asking for a reference. When it is provided, they delete it  
anyway with some lame excuse. Your point, I suppose, is that we  
should not attempt to reference the information  in articles or ask  
for sources because the situation might be gamed by those who are  
editing in bad faith.

My suggestion, which is Wikipedia policy, is that references should  
be provided for the information you add to articles and that same  
standard ought to be gently applied to the editing of others.

Fred

On Dec 15, 2005, at 7:57 AM, geni wrote:

> On 12/15/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
>
>> A better approach is for all of us in our regular editing start
>> gradually asking more often for a reference and do more deleting when
>> it is not provided.
>>
>
> Heh. "Do you have a reference for that?" has always been the warcry of
> our more skilled edit warriours.
>
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> geni
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