On 6/23/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
In my opinion, any such statement should be removed on sight by any editor, with a firm statement on the talk page that Wikipedia is not the place for idle speculation or original research.
You have made this request several times, but it is a hell of a long way from common accepted practice. Are we actually going to clamp down on this and make it enforced law?
I agree with you that we are going to "get hoaxed", but I'm not sure that insisting on sources is even going to help that much - not all sources can be easily checked, and even those that can be, aren't necessarily checked very often.
Steve