--- Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Why not the talk page? In the beginning at least, it seems quite feasible simply to append tags like:
...
Then people could deal with that text in the normal ways, adding comments as to whether they think it's worth including etc. What's the downside?
IMHO its just not the place to put discrete chunks of material which are designed for inclusion in the article. Plus, talk pages can get overloaded with nonsense or offtopic comments this way that have to be pruned by hand. Using a ticket system will let people use them, ignore them, otherwise file them to /dev/null.
Accreditation in history would be a problem if the
one
who submitted the ticket wants credit. Some may
not
True. Maybe at first simply deny them that opportunity? Or you know, in the edit summary you could always put the source so it's not *totally* lost.
WP is at the point where things are done only when they are and no sooner by the brilliant people who know how to do this stuff. It would be best left to them to decide what minimum specific level of sophistication is required. Wikidata seems like it was on this track IIRC, and this might be just repeating a part of that idea.
-S
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