[WikiEN-l] [[WP:V]] and [[WP:RS]] are destroying Wikipedia

[David Mestel]

On 17/09/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> In essence, we have written a set of policies that fail to reflect
> how we do work, should work, or could possibly work. And, due to the
> frighteningly large number of contributors who, given a piece of bad
> policy, will follow it rigidly without thinking about it, this is a
> solidly dangerous thing. (Something to remember: IAR is our most
> ignored rule.)

I have to disagree with you on the IAR point - I just clicked on the
"random article" button five times, and not one of the resulting
articles had a single source.  I think that our problem may be that,
because we place such a great demand on our sources, people don't
bother to source articles at all.  Perhaps we need to demand less in
order to achieve more...
-- 
David