On 3/30/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/30/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
On 3/29/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 3/29/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)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