[Foundation-l] Verifiability: Constitution? Question for Jimbo!

Walter van Kalken walter at vankalken.net
Mon Sep 18 10:19:26 UTC 2006


David Gerard wrote:

>On 18/09/06, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
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>>Thank you EC that is exactly how I feel about this and these kind of
>>things. Unfortunately the tendency seems to be to rigouresly edit out
>>these kind of unverified statements. At least that is the impression I
>>get from statements like the one Jimbo made.
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>On en:wp, the guideline is "don't put a {{fact}} tag on something
>unless you actually think it's likely to be wrong." The only case
>where we need to really be hard-arsed about citations is on living
>biographies.
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>- d.
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And again a statement that makes sense. Unforunately most wikipedians 
just see a rule, or a statement by jimbo and will be hard arsed about it 
in unfortunately. We will see where this ship ends up ......

Waerth



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