[WikiEN-l] And you thought Pokémon was trivial...

Sat Jun 24 00:23:22 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 6/23/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>> In my opinion, any such statement should be removed on sight by any
>> editor, with a firm statement on the talk page that Wikipedia is not the
>> place for idle speculation or original research.
> 
> You have made this request several times, but it is a hell of a long
> way from common accepted practice. Are we actually going to clamp down
> on this and make it enforced law?

If it was made "enforced law" it'd result in a purge of proportions
unmatched in Wikipedia's history.

As I've argued before when this sort of suggestion has come up, we can't
 let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Articles lacking sources
aren't unacceptable, IMO, they're simply _unfinished_. They'd need to be
properly verified before they were accepted for any sort of polished
compilation, sure, but Wikipedia as a whole is not that compilation. It
is the raw materials for one.

The German Wikipedia didn't wipe everything that didn't make it into the
DVD version, to take an example, I don't see why English Wikipedia
should do anything like that either.

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