[WikiEN-l] The new verifiability policy

Katefan0 katefan0wiki at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 22:52:07 UTC 2006


What other word would you suggest, then?  It's certainly more permissive
than "shall."

k


On 3/1/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Katefan0 wrote:
>
> >Personally, I think it's just about right that the policy state that
> >information without a source may be removed.  (Perhaps it should be more
> >pointed -- disputed information without a source).  Didn't Jimbo say as
> much
> >in one of his responses to Seigenthaler?
> >
> Part of the problem is with the permissive word "may", which is too
> often read as though it were "shall".
>
> Ec
>
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