On 29/03/2008, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
I am not a full-time student of these matters, so I could be wrong, but I suspect the "problem" here is that the letter of Wikipedia:Verifiability has been written by a group of editors with a much more rules-based and lawyerly mindset than the ones on this list who are preaching for more a less stringent, more fluid stance.
Yes. Wiki-[[nomic]] - the urge to make things go to your personal implications by rewriting policy and guideline pages - typically kicks in around three to six months into an editor's career on Wikipedia. As Phil Sandifer has pointed out, it's not terminal in *all* cases.
- d.