Bryan Derksen wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
geni wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28news%29#Robert_Mugabe...
So that's the best example I have seen in a while.
I don't see it as a good example, myself. The edit in question was referenced with an appropriate and well-formatted external source, so a policy of "instantly nuke any unsourced statements" would have failed to catch this.
This was in no way an appropriate external source. It was, at very best, original research, but apparently it was not even that, but a flat out lie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Mugabe&diff=85665104&am...
I am sure you will agree with me that a link to a list of students, which did not even at that time contain the name, along with a link to a login page which is alleged to contain the name, does not constitute an "appropriate external source".
So I think you just didn't read it closely enough.
--Jimbo