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

[Delirium]

Brian wrote:

> Britannica has to defend every letter of it before they can get 
> published. The same is true for all other major encyclopedias. Why 
> wouldn't it be true for us? Aren't we trying to make an encyclopedia 
> here?

Yeah, Nupedia tried that already.

The Wikipedia process is explicitly not to require perfection up front.  
Ideally, every fact would indeed be referenced.  And if you can add 
references to an article, that's a great thing.  If we end up with some 
system of vetting good articles, perhaps only well-referenced articles 
should be allowed to get the higher markings.  Those are all fine, and 
all much different than prohibiting edits that are not meticulously 
referenced in the first place.

-Mark