[Foundation-l] Enforcing WP:CITE

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron]

I insist that this problem is not different from the problem of 
Newspapers or Magazines.

Wherever there is mass-diffusion, there is a risk of disinformation.

Matt Brown wrote:
> I think there is a good deal of un-necessary panic going around about
> this USA Today thing.  Did it really tell us anything new?  No. 
> Misinformation in rarely visited articles has ALWAYS been a problem.
> 
> It's also not nearly as amenable to any kind of automated process as
> image tagging.
> 
> Let's not run around like headless chickens because some journalist
> found that conspiracy-theorist things had been put into his Wikipedia
> article.
> 
> Fact is: Wikipedia's improving.  At quite a tremendous rate, in fact. 
> It's easy to forget (a) the magnitude of the task, and (b) how bad we
> were even a year ago.
> 
> -Matt
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