In a message dated 11/29/2010 11:33:05 AM Pacific Standard Time,
midom.lists(a)gmail.com writes:
Hi!
Go on record, then I'll cite you.
An email list is not a citable source, per our policy.
Why would I care about your policy? Which policy is 'our' policy? Why does
it apply to anything here?
However a page on the server is citable.
So put your reputation up for view, then you'll be citable :)
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-November/062730.html
Domas
It's isn't my policy, it's our policy.
If you don't know to what I refer, then perhaps you can read up on it.
As far as citing the archives of an email list, that is also not a citable
source.
If Foundation staff and supporters themselves, are *not prepared* to go on
the record with their claims, then why should anyone trust anything they say
on an email list?
That is the very nature of *false authority*, the bane of our project. I
must say, I'm quite surprised that some people here don't grasp this concept
yet, after the projects being in existence for so many years now, almost a
decade right? It is a fundamental principle, that we should be citing actual
authorities, not false claims to authority.
W