From: <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
"The Cunctator" wrote
I'd just like to remind people that Wikipedia
was doing quite well
in the
Age Before Required Sourcing.
Yeah. But there has been something of a 'phase change'; and that is
not for no reason. Several really. The readers are less tolerant of
and amused by errors; the editing community has largely preferred a
more academic approach over time. Nothing scales 'with impunity' (I
think this is the fundamental theorem of computer science ...)
And in that age, when you said anything you were told that everyone
understood that Wikipedia was a work in progress, and that sourcing
would happen eventually.
Well, the work in progress is progressing, and that means that more
and more "eventually" is now.
I was doing quite well in the age when I wore diapers, but eventually...