On the subject of the unsourced... While looking up some info on british coinage today I ran across a cruftlink to [[Money in Harry Potter]]. Talk about unsourced! it runs wild with rampant speculation, routinely slips into the fictional universe, and I especially enjoy the bit towards the end where it lapses into first person (search for " I "). It's bad enough that I'd probably check it carefully for copyright violations before doing anything other than putting a deletion notice on it.
Of course, no sources are provided for the stream of consciousness analysis of books... although I bet someone will shove in a bunch of fansite links. But fixing the sourcing won't make this an acceptable article... and I think thats something we should keep in mind: Although we have a number of articles which unsourced but otherwise good, there are also many articles which are unsourced but also bad in other ways.. We risk doing ourselves a great disservice in simply 'sourcing' such articles but failing to improve their quality otherwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Money_in_Harry_Potter&oldid=90...
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:18:02 -0500, "Gregory Maxwell" gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On the subject of the unsourced... While looking up some info on british coinage today I ran across a cruftlink to [[Money in Harry Potter]]. Talk about unsourced! it runs wild with rampant speculation, routinely slips into the fictional universe, and I especially enjoy the bit towards the end where it lapses into first person (search for " I "). It's bad enough that I'd probably check it carefully for copyright violations before doing anything other than putting a deletion notice on it.
We need a {{crap article}} template...
Guy (JzG)
We need a cleanup tag. The writers in this article use the wrong sources who don't know the value themselves either. They should be using http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/money.html who take their info straight from J.K. Rowling as much as they can. The article should be about the appearance of the money and what can be bought with it instead of just the bloody exchange rate. We don't need all theories. Most of them can be blown out of the water anyway by something called exchange rate fluctuation.
Mgm
On 11/30/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:18:02 -0500, "Gregory Maxwell" gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On the subject of the unsourced... While looking up some info on british coinage today I ran across a cruftlink to [[Money in Harry Potter]]. Talk about unsourced! it runs wild with rampant speculation, routinely slips into the fictional universe, and I especially enjoy the bit towards the end where it lapses into first person (search for " I "). It's bad enough that I'd probably check it carefully for copyright violations before doing anything other than putting a deletion notice on it.
We need a {{crap article}} template...
Guy (JzG)
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On 30/11/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
We need a {{crap article}} template...
Once again, Encyclopedia Dramatica has beaten us to the punch.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Template:Crap
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:10:52 +0000, "Earle Martin" wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
We need a {{crap article}} template...
Once again, Encyclopedia Dramatica has beaten us to the punch.
I think they stole the idea from Uncyclopaedia, though.
Guy (JzG)