Delirium wrote:
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
I think Jimbo needs to step in and talk to some
bigwigs at
ru.wikipedia.org and sort this out. Maybe even wave his magic wand if
need be (after all, he more than anyone else has been arguing for this
for a long time). We cannot have an encyclopedia without a
verifiability policy, it's just not possible in the long run.
Given the translation, I'm not sure that's necessary. It appears only a
handful of people really oppose verifiability in general, and most of
the worry is that this is going to be some draconian policy where any
uncited sentence is going to be deleted 48 hours from now or something.
I'd be inclined to see what happens and allow the community to craft
their policy, only stepping in if it goes horribly awry or something.
Yeah, totally. I have been to Russia and I hung out with some of the
Russian Wikipedians. They'll be fine. :) It'll be a noisy fight with
good people coming down in subtly different but respectable places, a
few trolls trying to cause trouble, a few idiots blathering on about
nothing, and in the end the middle way will more or less prevail to
reasonably good results.