Steve Bennett wrote:
On 4/10/07, Philip Sandifer sandifer@english.ufl.edu wrote:
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
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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