[WikiEN-l] CITE nazis

Peter Ansell ansell.peter at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 01:27:47 UTC 2006


On 15/08/06, stevertigo <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> > To exhaustively, regimentedly cite every well-known fact in every
> > article would be ugly, unwieldy, and overbearing.  But it's equally
> > obvious that, the bigger and more popular Wikipedia gets, the harder
> > it is to rely on "obvious" or "ought to" rules which depend on people being
> > reasonable.
>
> So are you saying AGF (a subpolicy of CIVIL, (predecessor too, actually)) is out the
> window too?

Assuming good faith does not go so far as to say that we assume
perfection of edits. As long as the person is civil and not abusive of
the editor who put in the unverified statement it should fit within
all the policies.

Peter Ansell



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