On 3/30/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/30/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 3/29/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/29/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I hope the horse I am beating is still alive: we have to be absolutely ruthless about removing "I think I heard it somewhere" pseudo-information from Wikipedia, and especially from biographies.
We don't have the resources to this without straight deleting about 95%+ of bios. <i>And that still wouldn't solve the problem</I>
Why wouldn't it solve the problem?
Because there would still be problems in the remaining bios and plenty of false stuff about people in articles on towns and schools.
Ah, I now understand that you were talking about deleting entire articles, and not merely removing the unsourced statements from them.
With that in mind, I do think we have the resources, and accomplishing it would be really simple. Just set a hard and fast rule that everything in an article must be sourced, and then make it clear that removal of unsourced statements is exempt from the three revert rule.
Pass those two rules, and I think Wikipedia will get rid of the vast majority of unsourced statements in articles very quickly.
The problem is, I think there are a significant number of Wikipedians who don't *want* that. That probably makes it a board edict or nothing.
Anthony