[WikiEN-l] Requiring sources

Sat Dec 24 18:32:09 UTC 2005

Fred Bauder wrote:

> My thought (I wrote these) was that they were harassing him. Of  course
> he has to provide sources, but so do they. If their purpose is  to
> strongly resist any edit which offends their point of view they  don't
> feel they need to bother to look the subject up. They can play  the
> "provide sources" game. Note that when Xed finally came up with  some
> sources they deleted them, not good enough. These folks were  engaged in
> game playing. To Viriditas's credit, he kept looking and  found a really
> good reference that substantially improved the article.

1. It's still creating sticks for idiots to wield in future. Wording bad
enough to be worse than nothing at all.

2. If someone supplies a completely shit source that's not good enough.
There's been just a little discussion on this topic on wikien-l of late.

- d.