[Foundation-l] university blocking wikipedia

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 22:25:14 UTC 2007


> Ask them to cite their sources :-)
> (for example, ask the person to provide names of universities
> supposingly doing that)
> Then, if the person reveals unable to provide any names, adopt a very
> serious and dignified face, nod gravely, and says "urban legends are
> terrible. I wish so much people would start using figures and citing
> sources when they make a claim. We should ban sentences starting by
> "many says that", or "some people consider that" or "Most people know
> that"".

You want to pass [[WP:WEASEL]] into law? Sounds like a plan. Everyone
pick a country, and we'll start work.



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