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

[Francis Tyers]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 14:16 +0100, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> If people cited their sources in the first place, there wouldn't be any
> abuse by people using that fact to get it deleted. Any abuse with these
> policies can be prevented if people just made the effort. I think I'm going
> to reread those pages and think about rewriting them.
> 
> Mgm

Agree. If there is a problem with things being deleted, it isn't a
problem with policy, but with the people writing them without specifying
a source.

Fran

> 
> On 1/25/07, Francis Tyers <spectre at ivixor.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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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