[WikiEN-l] New policy proposal

Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Mon Dec 13 10:42:32 UTC 2004


Ray Saintonge wrote

> A sense of balance is important.  We also can't confine ourselves to
> only peer-reviewed journals, as some seem to suggest.

I can see why the historians get annoyed, in that if you don't have to check
any sources, anyone who can read a newspaper can write 'history'.  On the
other  hand on WP anyone _can_ write anything. That's not balance, it's how
a wiki works.

Charles





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