[WikiEN-l] Reliable sources: problems with [[WP:RS]]

Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman at spamcop.net
Tue Oct 10 21:44:17 UTC 2006


On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:58:23 -0600, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

>That's an appeal-to-motive fallacy. Even if this were true (and don't
>forget to assume good faith) and it's the reason Phil is complaining,
>it's still entirely possible that the "reliable sources" guideline is
>still flawed and Phil's arguments sound.

Of course.  It's just a bizarre coincidence that every time an article
on something from teh internets is deleted as unverifiable, it's
always our policies which are wrong, and never the users arguing for
the retention of stuff which is discussed exclusively by other people
like them.

Funny, that.

Sometimes I think it would be good to move all pop culture stuff to a
sister project where rampant fandom and scatalogical humour will
present less of a problem.

For the avoidance of doubt this is absolutely not directed at Phil,
who is as far as I can tell a perfectly reasonable bloke.

Guy (JzG)
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