On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Wily D wrote:
There's no reason the usual principle of "if somebody objects, provide a source" can't apply. Source obvious statements that are obvious to everyone should be easy. If it's not, maybe they're not so obvious and need to be sourced.
If you do that, people can intentionally "object" to things they don't really doubt just in order to make other people jump through hoops.
The converse is, when we say "use your good judgement and own knowledge" we enter unsolvable conflicts. Excessive sourcing is the only way to resolve this - in an article like Evolution or Armenian Genocide, you simply source the fuck out of everything and tell those acting in bad faith to take a hike - as it stands, on Wikipedia, there's no other way to deal with this.
Attacking V/NOR et al. without replacing the absolutely critical functions it does perform would be suicidal.
Cheers WilyD