On 07/04/2008, Wily D <wilydoppelganger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The converse is, when we say "use your good
judgement and own
knowledge" we enter unsolvable conflicts. Excessive sourcing is the
only way to resolve this - in an article like Evolution or Armenian
Genocide, you simply source the fuck out of everything and tell those
acting in bad faith to take a hike - as it stands, on Wikipedia,
there's no other way to deal with this.
Attacking V/NOR et al. without replacing the absolutely critical
functions it does perform would be suicidal.
The trouble is that building a structure rigid enough to deal with bad
faith or even just blithering stupidity is utterly unsuitable for use
by clueful editors of good faith, and is actually actively damaging
right now.
You are not going to solve malice or cluelessness with a set of rules.
I think the failure of the current incarnations to do so demonstrates
this, and I really doubt the solution is more of the same.
- d.