[WikiEN-l] GNAA Deleted!

[Daniel P. B. Smith]

> From: <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
>
> "The Cunctator" wrote
>
>> I'd just like to remind people that Wikipedia was doing quite well  
>> in the
>> Age Before Required Sourcing.
>
> Yeah. But there has been something of a 'phase change'; and that is  
> not for no reason. Several really. The readers are less tolerant of  
> and amused by errors; the editing community has largely preferred a  
> more academic approach over time. Nothing scales 'with impunity' (I  
> think this is the fundamental theorem of computer science ...)

And in that age, when you said anything you were told that everyone  
understood that Wikipedia was a work in progress, and that sourcing  
would happen eventually.

Well, the work in progress is progressing, and that means that more  
and more "eventually" is now.

I was doing quite well in the age when I wore diapers, but eventually...