[WikiEN-l] Nuke [[WP:CITE]] and [[WP:RS]]

[Francis Tyers]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 08:09 -0500, Omegatron wrote:
> On 1/25/07, Matt R <matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > The same holds for RS and CITE: they don't magically guarantee quality by
> > themselves, but they are great tools for doing so if not abused.
> 
> 
> But they are only used for abuse.  A simple sentence or two in WP:V and a
> dose of consensus is sufficient.

Only used for abuse?? How do you find that? I know that demanding decent
reliable sources for an /encyclopaedia/ is _controversial_ (sadly), but
its one of the things that (supposedly) makes us different from other
non-encyclopaedic volunteer run collections of information.

Fran

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