On 15/08/06, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Steve Summit scs@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