On 10/16/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Yes, some trolls will use such a policy to try to remove things like "Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd President" until we get a source. But we should set our standards assuming rational people as our colleagues, and deal with the trolls as a separate behavioral issue.
Those kinds of trolls are fairly easily dealt with:
"Thomas Jefferson: Third President 1801-1809" http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
From the Biography of Thomas Jefferson, found on the official White
House website. That took about 1 second - if I had a whole minute I could have found lots better stuff.
People keep claiming that it's hard to source "obvious facts"; however, in practice that's almost never the case. Obvious facts are generally extremely easy to source.
Jay.