[WikiEN-l] When Unsourced Isn't That Bad

[David Gerard]

On 09/04/07, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/9/07, Philip Sandifer <sandifer at english.ufl.edu> wrote:

> > So what can we do? What can we put into place that facilitates this
> > sort of local engagement?

> Work through the relevant WikiProjects more?  There's a certain
> element of disdain for them -- "I don't want to talk to WikiProject X
> because they're all fanboys/POV pushers/people violating OWN/etc." --
> that needs to be done away with; but they're an existing
> infrastructure for interacting with editors that work primarily in a
> particular subject area without getting involved in the Wikipedia-wide
> bureaucracy.


A lot of the problem with AFD is that (a) it sees itself as the
project's editorial control (b) it's insular. WikiProject AFD.


- d.