Which, when you're invested in NPOV, is truth, since our goal, at least on subjects where there's dispute, is not to say "It's an elephant" but rather "This is what seven people say about it."
But there are more than seven people who say elephants are three times as tall as a giraffe thanks to [[Stephen Colbert]]'s TV show. :-(
Though they say any publicity is good publicity...
Not just any people. We need reliable sources. Biologists, zoologists, etc. Not some random people who were told to swamp us with nonsense.
Mgm
On 9/19/06, [[User:Unforgettableid]] unforgettableid@gmail.com wrote:
Which, when you're invested in NPOV, is truth, since our goal, at least on subjects where there's dispute, is not to say "It's an elephant" but rather "This is what seven people say about it."
But there are more than seven people who say elephants are three times as tall as a giraffe thanks to [[Stephen Colbert]]'s TV show. :-(
Though they say any publicity is good publicity... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Not just any people. We need reliable sources. Biologists, zoologists, etc. Not some random people who were told to swamp us with nonsense.
Mgm
Exactly - although the contributions of ordinary users are just as valued as those of experts, in terms of the actual facts we are interested in accuracy rather than popularity. That's what WP:V, WP:RS and (to a lesser extent) WP:NOR are for.
Cynical