I've asked a few times, but I'll do so again, more bluntly: How do you intend to encourage this, beyond occasional rants to this mailing list? Are we authorised to make big changes to WP:V and claim that Jimbo said it was ok? How far are we going with this? Is it just a cultural change, or policy change?

Steve

First mailing here, not sure I have the formatting in accordance with the norm, but hopefully it will suffice.

I would like to know the answer to this as well. The amazing ambivalence towards uncited information in articles, even those where the lack of citation puts the article into significant NPOV violation, is appalling. If we could require sources on any significant addition, especially to controversial articles, it would solve some of the content and NPOV disputes in serious articles. It would also be of benefit in our fandom driven articles, as stricter sourcing rules would be enable us to slash out speculative "information" without hesitation.

I recently added a note on the Template:Fact page cautioning about its use on biography pages, based on a message Jimbo posted here on the 12th, but considering the way people ignored the previous caution on using it on info that appeared false, I don't expect it to have much of an impact.

--tjstrf

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