charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Daniel P. B. Smith" wrote
c) Everything in Wikipedia should eventually be referenced or removed.
Nah. There's even an interesting reason, which is that with exponential growth the boundary (wild wiki frontier) is always of size very significantly large with respect to the central 'core' of must-have articles. What we actually need is a _targeted drive_ to bring up the quality of the core articles, and that must include fact-checking and all the other good things. Tagging just everything creates work, and implies work only likely to be done sporadically.
What I would love to see is version-tagging implemented and then in addition to the basic "not vandalised" tag having a "has adequate verification" tag. If there were some way to make it easy to cull out "more finished" stuff from the "less finished" stuff there might be less pressure to delete work in progress in order to make Wikipedia as a whole "more finished".
Maybe have a tag for each of the other major policies too, while we're at it. Last time I heard how development on version tagging was going I heard it was going to be quite flexible in allowing multiple types of tags.