charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com wrote:
People are coming up with some really bad ideas these
days, it seems.
Seems like a good one to me. The fewer policy pages the better, IMO.
Keeping the in-principle discussion of verifiability,
which is a
Foundation level policy, separate from the nitty-gritty discussion of
what a reliable source is, is a very good idea. Mainstream press is
usually reliable enough to use in WP, supermarket tabloids are never.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy> has plenty of supermarket tabloid
references, and quite rightly so. Never say "never."
The problem I've always had with RS is that it's written by people who
understand that guidelines are meant to be flexibly and non-universally
applied, and then interpreted by people who consider it to be universal
hard-edged fundamental law. Maybe if the material is relocated to a
policy page it'll be written with the flexibility built in more explicitly.