[WikiEN-l] SOS -- Save Our Sources

[Steve Bennett]

On 12/5/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >I don't see why quotes
> > would add to Wikipedia when they are clearly not considered to add to
> > academic papers and books.
>
> Because our articles are not academic papers.

In fact our articles are extremely different from academic papers.
Crucially, our authors are not accountable. We don't even have editors
that do a basic fact-check before publishing. We can't expect our
readers to trust our authors, so we should make every attempt to let
readers check the facts for themselves.

Steve