[Foundation-l] Minimum standards for verifiability

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Sat Sep 16 18:44:43 UTC 2006


Александр Сигачёв wrote:
> * Our project still very young for such strict rule (Russian Wikipedia
> has more then 100,000 articles)

This seems reasonable to me---en.wikipedia didn't enter a strong 
verifiability/citation push until around 1 million articles. Before 
that, the focus was on expanding content to a critical mass.

Of course, as a guideline something like this has been used all 
along---incredible, surprising, or unlikely statements even in the early 
days of Wikipedia had to be backed up with a source, or someone would 
remove them.

-Mark




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