I carry out mass actions on a regular basis on
Wikipedia, I consider it part of Being Bold and the
urgent reason for doing so is always to improve the
encylopedia.
The question is whether or not we're better off with
unreliable sources or with no sources at all. If the
answer is no sources at all, I have no problems
pulling 1000 inappropriate references if I can find
them, just as I would remove spam external links from
every article I found them in, or revert every single
instance where someone replaced an article with "I
love boobs!".
As you mentioned killing the patient in an attempt to
cure them, do you think we're better off with
as a reference for text in
an article, and if so, why?
--- White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Any mass action is disruptive unless there are
urgent reasons to do so.
I would suggest finding a reliable source and
updating the pages
accordingly. No one would yell you for that and you
would be more satisfied
in what you are doing. It is always tempting to kill
the patient to cure
them but remember we want to avoid the patients
death.
- White Cat
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:49 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/03/2008, bobolozo
<bobolozo(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
> My question is, is it a good idea to simply go
through
> and remove large numbers of these? Are we
better off
> with no sources at all for portions of
text,
rather
> than have references which consist of
message
board
postings
and personal websites and such?
[...]
> reference). But now, having discovered the
ease with
> which I can find thousands more unreliable
sources as
> references, I'm wondering what others
think of
the
> mass removal of unreliable sources.
> Am I correct in believing that we're better off
having
an
unsourced paragraph of text, rather than a
paragraph which has as a reference
somedudeswebpage.tripod.com?
Take extreme caution and make damn sure you know
the subject area
first. "Reliable sources" is entirely
relative to
the subject area.
Mass removal of references is the sort of thing
that has gotten people
taken out and shot by the arbitration committee
before.
- d.
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