[WikiEN-l] And you thought Pokémon was trivial...

Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman at spamcop.net
Fri Jun 23 20:40:11 UTC 2006


On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:32:22 +0200, "Steve Bennett"
<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

>I agree with you that we are going to "get hoaxed", but I'm not sure
>that insisting on sources is even going to help that much - not all
>sources can be easily checked, and even those that can be, aren't
>necessarily checked very often.

It's a recipe for FUTON bias.  I remember an article on Tuatafa Hori;
it was vigorously asserted that there was a source, a rare French book
as I recall, which was published in very small numbers and is not
available in more than a handful of libraries.  Assuming good faith
took a bit of a dent...

Guy (JzG)
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