On 17/09/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
In essence, we have written a set of policies that fail to reflect how we do work, should work, or could possibly work. And, due to the frighteningly large number of contributors who, given a piece of bad policy, will follow it rigidly without thinking about it, this is a solidly dangerous thing. (Something to remember: IAR is our most ignored rule.)
I have to disagree with you on the IAR point - I just clicked on the "random article" button five times, and not one of the resulting articles had a single source. I think that our problem may be that, because we place such a great demand on our sources, people don't bother to source articles at all. Perhaps we need to demand less in order to achieve more...