[Foundation-l] Enforcing WP:CITE the Soi case

[Ray Saintonge]

Walter van Kalken wrote:

>>> Having citations is a good thing but please realise that it is best 
>>> used when controversies arise.
>>
>> Having citations is fundamental to being a good reference work.
>>
>> This is *not* ( I say it again ) related to deletion policy.
>>
>> SJ 
>
> Yes SJ you will be able to handle it in a correct matter and so will 
> many other wikipedians. But you must admit we have a group of users 
> who will read this and take it as a golden rule and start upsetting 
> people. There are lots of wikipedians who simply do not read something 
> as a whole. They just read MUST CITE and that is what they'll remember 
> and they go on causing havoc. And it will be worse in other languages. 
> More than once I had to stop somebody who was citing english wikipedia 
> rules which are not applicable to nl.wikipedia.
>
> Now you and me unfortunately do not have the time to watch the 
> respective wikis we work on 24 hours a day. So before you start 
> writing this down please thank about it. 

It's always comforting to hear voices of reason. :-)

Unfortunately those who fixate on "MUST CITE" are also prone to ignore 
<big><bold>MUST USE COMMON SENSE</bold></big>.  Sigh!  Is a four word 
rule so much more difficult than a two word rule?  ... even when you 
point out that there is an identical word in both?

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