Thursday, January 25, 2007, 10:00:34 PM, George wrote:
Wikipedia is not the fact-based encyclopedia project
you're demanding.
It can never be, because it's not structured that way in a semantic
or knowledge flow manner. Attempting to force Wikipedia into that
model will blow up your mind and our project. Please stop.
What's wrong with adding a reference after each sentence?
Hoping that your mind won't blow, here's a very well-sourced example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_general_election%2C_1946
Wikipedia's purpose, as said by Jimbo, is not to be a wiki, not to be
a community, but to simply create an encyclopedia. The rest are simply
means towards a goal.
Killing our project here and now by turning it into
Nupedia makes no
sense. If their model works, then perhaps we should all go work over
there. If it doesn't then leave the WP model alone...
Maybe you are the one on the wrong encyclopedia: Wikipedia requires
verifiability as an official policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
And it's not Nupedia, everyone still can edit it, but one should add
the *source* of the addition.