[WikiEN-l] The new verifiability policy

[Ray Saintonge]

slimvirgin at gmail.com wrote:

>On 3/1/06, charles matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>>Slim Virgin wrote
>>My concern, and I see it too often, is that material is cut because it is
>>unsourced, and only because of that.
>>
>>The
>>'instrumentalist' view, that policy is to be used to rule one's own edits
>>in, and the edits of others out, is a menace, in fact.
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>Realistically, when is this a problem, Charles? I confess to being
>bewildered when people complain about the need to find sources. If
>their edit is correct, why can't they source it?
>
Are they actually refusing to source it.  Or is the material simply 
being removed without so much as an attempt to engage in serious dialogue?

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