Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Philip Welch wrote:
On Mar 1, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
We have to assume people can read English. Saying that an unsourced edit MAY be removed is clearly not the same as saying it MUST be or SHOULD be.
Of course they're different, but most people don't read with that degree of precision even though they have been reading English for most of their lives.
Rules and policies are meant to be written precisely, Ray. They have precise meanings.
The fact that stunningly large amounts of people have poor reading comprehension does not detract from this.
In this case I would have thought the meaning perfectly clear:
"Like any other material which you submit to Wikipedia, unsourced edits may be removed at the discretion of any editor."
Ahh! That's the same rule that applies to sourced edit. If that's the case why bother even having the rule at all?
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