Tom Haws wrote,
steven l. rubenstein wrote:
Some people have suggested that if someone keeps putting unsourced material on the page, the solution is to delete it. Well, this is the first solution to any problem at Wikipedia.
Heh-heh. It is easy to see how this problem got started. Deleting unsourced material is an excellent excuse for POV police, warriors, and their ilk. But it doesn't go over too well in polite society.
Tom Haws
Are you being disingenuous, or have you just not been following this thread? I thought it was abundantly clear that the person in question had been asked for a source several times. The question is, what to do then? Ray Saintonge replied, delete. And that is where my e-mail picks up. To then suggest I am a POV cop in this matter is disingenuous and dangerous.
What POV do you think I am pushing, Tom?
It should be clear that this is NOT a matter of pushing a POV. I have no objection to including a marxist definition in the article. But it must be accurate. Otherwise, what kind of encyclopedia is this?
Okay Tom, what do you think we should do, if someone refuses over the course of several weeks to provide a source for a claim that some editors say is inaccurate or simply false?
I am getting tired of this discussion that seems to go nowhere, but I think it is important. If Tom Haws is going to label as a POV warrior anyone who insists that our policies, such as Verifiability and Cite sources, must be enforced, then how on earth are we going to write a good encyclopedia? Or do you have a different goal, Tom?
Steve
Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701