I can see where you're coming from. Though I imagine that generally, truly uncontroversial information just goes right through without causing, well, any controversy. The minute someone says "Who says it's so?" the information has just become controversial, and "I do" doesn't seem like a tremendously good answer at that point. And for most genuinely uncontroversial/common-knowledge information, finding a source is trivial, and will take 2 minutes, while arguing over it takes as long as people want to argue. If people want confirmation that the sun is hot, or that the chemical formula for water is H2O, or that all atoms contain protons and electrons, it's not worth the time to argue-I'll go find 5 reliable sources in that many minutes, and that's that.
Seraphimblade
On 4/3/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Seraphim Blade [mailto:seraphimbladewikipedia@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 11:33 AM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Original research or common sense inferral?
Fred Bauder wrote:
It would be common sense to adopt this position. I support it. Why
should be deny users the right to add what they know? Published or not?
Go look at your Armenia-Azerbaijan arbitration case for your answer. (Or for that matter, most arbitration cases.) All those editors, every one of them, are -adding what they know-. And I guarantee you, they KNOW it, you could never convince one of them that everything they're writing is not 100% true and factual. That's why we should stick to what we can verify, not what we know.
Seraphimblade
You're comparing apples and oranges. If I say that Saguache Creek is a tributary of San Luis Creek in the Closed Basin of the San Luis Valley, that is one thing, saying that the Azerbaijanis desecrated an ancient Armenian graveyard, is quite another. One is a mere fact, the other is a contested matter.
I guess I should say: It would be common sense to adopt this position. I support it. Why should we deny users the right to add uncontroversial facts that they know? Published or not?
Fred
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