[WikiEN-l] insist on sources

Thu Jul 20 00:34:53 UTC 2006

On 7/19/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> "The defining moment for Sergey, however, was when he met future
> co-president of Google, Larry Page. Sergey was assigned to show Larry
> around the university on a weekend tour. Reportedly, they did not get on
> well to begin with, arguing about every topic they discussed, and even
> throwing a few pies at each other."
>
> Is that true? Is it not true? As a reader of Wikipedia, I have no easy
> way to know. If it is true, it should be easy to supply a reference.
> If it is not true, it should be removed.
>
> I really want to encourage a much stronger culture which says: it is
> better to have no information, than to have information like this, with
> no sources. Any editor who removes such things, and refuses to allow it
> back without an actual and appropriate source, should be the recipient
> of a barnstar.
>
> --Jimbo

http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=225408
http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

I could not find anything about pies, however. Probably from The
Google Story; I don't feel like digging through the copy on Google
Books, however.

~maru