Cheney Shill wrote:
--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Cheney Shill wrote:
In practice, yes, if:
- The information looks likely to be correct; and
Problem is that's subjective. How does one determine what is or is not likely?
Of course---the entire process of writing an encyclopedia requires some amount of human intelligence, which is why we've gone out and gotten people to work on it. Whether to delete an unreferenced article-in-progress or leave it to be improved is a subjective decision weighing the pros and cons of each. Actually, this is true even of referenced articles, since it takes very little effort to construct a completely misleading---but referenced---article.
-Mark