Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it>
wrote:
requiring it from anyone will have very negative
results ... and this
will mean that many of the people I was just getting on becoming
interested in giving their expertise to Wikipedia will not be there ...
months of work for nothing ...
Again ; language versions at different stages of development need to follow
different policies on
this type of thing. The great majority of wikis will be better served by encouraging
growth more
than quality, but the ones that are already huge can afford to be a bit more picky. Once
the other
wikis get huge, then they could start to be more picky as well.
I believe that sourcing should be the norm al all projects, but with
each in its own time and way.
Mav's comments on this topic leave the impression that references do not
matter for many of the rest of us. To the contrary, the one constant
that has tied the people in this thread together is that they believe
that references and citations are a good thing, and are trying to find a
solution that will accomplish this. For some of us it is equally
important that we not forget our roots, and that we not allow a blind
obsession with references to obscure the positive features of the
project.. Let's not be too quick to punish people for failing to add
citations.
Ec