Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:58:23 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@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.
But you just used the exact same fallacy again. What does it matter what the motive is (which, BTW, you're still only making guesses at) when the argument itself is still sound?
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.
A fork of that magnitude would cleft Wikipedia in twain, and I doubt either half would be the better for it. It'd be a toss-up which one gets to be called "Wikipedia" at any rate.