On 17/09/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I would also suggest, personally, that the consensus behind WP:RS is a consensus only of those trying to forge the policy. I suspect there a lot of editors like myself and yourself who disagree with its approach, but find the prospect of reforming it in the teeth of strenuous opposition simply not worth my time.
Yes. I've done my time against the edit-warriors keeping it in its pathological state. I strongly suggest looking for people citing the policy stupidly and dealing with them instead, since the page itself has been rendered useless as any sort of guideline.
Perhaps [[Wikipedia:Usable sources]] can be created as a parallel guideline with a view to replacing the one that's gone pathological.
- d.