On 12/3/05, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
I want to outline my position here, so that there is no misunderstanding, as there seems to be.
- I am NOT saying that every fact in Wikipedia must be sourced or removed.
- I am saying that every fact in Wikipedia should be SOURCEABLE.
- I am not saying that everyone must give their sources whenever they edit.
- I am saying that we can encourage people to work on a project to find
sources for each fact, just like we have encouraged people to fix commas or categorize stubs. 5. I am not saying that people who cannot source should be discouraged from editing. 6. I am saying that we should encourage people to find sources, for their own work and for other's work as well. 7. I am saying that there are many different types of sources, and we should find ways of including them. (BTW, in a previous job I worked extensively with oral histories, which are a wonderful source of information, even if they must always be verified). 7. Finally, I am saying that high quality is NOT something we can compromise.
Danny
This seems like a reasonable approach... Actually, strike that, it seems like what we already should be doing, in theory -- isn't it already true that every fact must be sourceable? We (myself included) just aren't so good at enforcing it by catching questionable statements and trying to source them.
-Kat [[en:User:Mindspillage]]
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