[WikiEN-l] Requiring sources
David Gerard
fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Sat Dec 24 18:32:09 UTC 2005
Fred Bauder wrote:
> My thought (I wrote these) was that they were harassing him. Of course
> he has to provide sources, but so do they. If their purpose is to
> strongly resist any edit which offends their point of view they don't
> feel they need to bother to look the subject up. They can play the
> "provide sources" game. Note that when Xed finally came up with some
> sources they deleted them, not good enough. These folks were engaged in
> game playing. To Viriditas's credit, he kept looking and found a really
> good reference that substantially improved the article.
1. It's still creating sticks for idiots to wield in future. Wording bad
enough to be worse than nothing at all.
2. If someone supplies a completely shit source that's not good enough.
There's been just a little discussion on this topic on wikien-l of late.
- d.
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