[WikiEN-l] CITE nazis

[Death Phoenix]

I think it's most useful to detect original research and speculation. For
example, in [[Colonization of Mars]], I noticed two recent additions (
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colonization_of_Mars&diff=66947187&oldid=66945515and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colonization_of_Mars&diff=66952733&oldid=66947187)
that weren't common knowledge and I was wondering where the heck they found
this information.

I added the dreaded {{fact}} template:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colonization_of_Mars&diff=67030722&oldid=66952733

Another editor found the sources and put it in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colonization_of_Mars&diff=67076307&oldid=67074721

I don't see how this would be the actions of a CITE Nazi, and indeed, it
prevented me from simply reverting the two additions.

On 8/14/06, stevertigo <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Im not exactly the most citatious Wikipedian, but nor do I have any
> tendency to make claims which arent easily verifiable. Over the years
> though Ive encountered a number of Wikipedians (I wont name names) who
> abuse or violate a clean interpretation of CIVIL by referring to CITE
> or V as a basis for what is essentially ownership of an article; in the
> form of a revert, rather than a constructive edit, correction, or (gasp!)
> a collaborative and helpful attempt to find a source.
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> Im not sure on the stats, but it is my impression that this demand for
> verifiability is 1) deletionistic 2) one sided, and not applied to one's
> own person and 3) comes with some attached notion of "reliable sources" by
> which material from any deemed "unreliable" sources can be deleted.
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> Thats the topic. Discuss.
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> Wikilove,
> -Stevertigo
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