[WikiEN-l] Ya can talk all ya wanna but its differn't than it was

[Phil Sandifer]

On Feb 24, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:

>
> Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia yet. It was _certainly_ not an
> encyclopedia _then._ I've always assumed that calling it "the free
> encyclopedia that anyone can edit" was a deliberate attempt to keep
> the _goal_ clear and always in front of everyone.
>

Bull. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It's not a publishable one, for a  
variety of reasons, quality only being one. But it's clearly an  
encyclopedia.

> Things change.

Yes. But I've seen nobody provide any evidence that there was a rash  
of crazies we couldn't deal with leading to the implementation of  
[[WP:RS]] and [[WP:N]]. Or that there was a sudden decrease in  
crazies when we had them. Or, really, any correlation between the  
two, little yet causality.

-Phil