[WikiEN-l] CITE nazis

[Fred Bauder]

On Aug 14, 2006, at 11:04 AM, stevertigo wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thats the topic. Discuss.

That is certainly the subtext of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/ 
His excellency. Nothing met the standards of the POV editors.

Fred