[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 153

[Steve Bennett]

On 12/21/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is the December 18, 1857 morning edition of [[The New York Times]] an
> acceptable source?  It's rather hard to find a copy of it these days.
> How about the [[ISO 9000]] standard?  The International Standards
> Organization charges thousands of dollars for access to it.

The sooner this, and related discussions shift from trying to define
some "acceptable/unacceptable" line, to establishing a series of
"preferable/less preferable" relationships, the better. Of course
that's an acceptable source in certain contexts. Of course you
wouldn't want to use it if you had better ones.

There are very few things that are truly unacceptable at Wikipedia:
slander, copyright violations, deliberate falsehoods to name a few.
Everything else is just a series of improvements that takes the
crappiest stub to the best featured article.

Steve