[WikiEN-l] The new verifiability policy

slimvirgin at gmail.com slimvirgin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 22:58:52 UTC 2006


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.
> >
> Part of the problem is with the permissive word "may", which is too
> often read as though it were "shall".
>
We have to assume people can read English. Saying that an unsourced
edit MAY be removed is clearly not the same as saying it MUST be or
SHOULD be.

Sarah



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