On 3/3/06, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
My interest here is rather in people's behaviour. The user who cut the information has, in my view, made numerous mistakes. Since the Verifiability policy will not in any case prevent the making of mistakes, here's the question to the class.
User:81.157.14.152 didn't follow best practice here. Enumerate the ways in which best practice was not followed.
I'm not sure I see the point of this, Charles, because each situation is different, depending on whether the editors know each other, how potentially harmful the unsourced edit is, and so on. But in this case, I would look for a source myself online. If I couldn't find one, I'd request one on talk. For a harmless edit like this, I'd probably wait for a couple of weeks, then go back and delete it. If I cared about the subject, I'd try to track down an offline source myself. If the edit was potentially more damaging that where someone went to school, I'd add the {{fact}} template. If it was more damaging than that, I'd remove it (moving damaging edits to talk is not a good idea, because they're still cached by Google).
But WP:V can't give endless examples like this. We have to assume, even if flying in the face of all the evidence, that most editors have a degree of common sense.
Sarah