On 3/30/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
English Wikipedia is not at that stage anymore. We should not accept random "I heard it somewhere" information nearly as easily as we would when we were young... even information that is not harmful per se.
Does that apply only to [[Tokyo]] or does it apply equally to [[Bumsville]], a tiny town of 300 people which has the highest per-capita rate of hamburger consumption in Canada?
I don't think that *all* of English Wikipedia has now matured in the way you describe. The core has. We would not accept crap in an article about a major, major city. But I think we do still accept crap in new stubs, although we could change that.
Steve