On 12/9/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
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.
That's a very nice bulleted summary of exactly what our policy on sources should be, IMO. =]
-Mark
Wouldn't it be fair to say that it's a nice bulleted summary of exactly what our policy on sources actually is?