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

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 4/10/07, Philip Sandifer <sandifer at english.ufl.edu> wrote:
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>>We need to stop trying to craft general solutions to all articles and
>>start realizing that articles develop in different orders and on
>>different paths. Solutions that fix a problem we're seeing in one
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>It's a hell of a lot easier to tell a newbie "every article must be
>sourced" than anything more nuanced. And easier for them to
>understand.
>
IOW: The easy way out.

>Which isn't to say that we couldn't operate different rules for
>newbies than for established users. But I don't see how we can
>suddenly start telling newbies that unsourced articles are ok, even if
>it's only "sometimes ok".
>
We just need to find a more subtle way of saying it.

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