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