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

[Bogdan Giusca]

Thursday, January 25, 2007, 6:25:38 PM, Ken wrote:

> WP:CITE and WP:RS are unreasonably easy to abuse

What you call "abuse", others call improval of the sourcing and
of the verifiability, and of therefore the credibility of Wikipedia.

From my experience on Wikipedia, almost all the criticism on the
Reliable Sources requirements comes from people who edit mostly
articles on anime, webcomics, furry subculture, internet memes
and the like.

Those areas are not the core of an encyclopedia and protecting those
areas should should not result in the compromising the rest of
Wikipedia.

We can't have two sets of rules: one for cruft and one for the rest.

There are plenty of wikis for obscure stuff which fail our current
policies on verifiability.