[WikiEN-l] insist on sources

Lord Voldemort lordbishopvoldemort at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 20:48:28 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.

Actually, and forgive my immense lack of knowledge on the subject, is
there any automated way to see which articles [[Category:Living
people]] and [[Category:Articles lacking sources]] have in common?
Thanks in advance. --LV



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