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

[George Herbert]

On 1/25/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
> Thursday, January 25, 2007, 9:38:50 PM, George wrote:
>
> > Here's the problem.  Academic rigor - which I understand, having done
> > refereed papers for conferences and such - is all fine and good for
> > scholarly original research papers.
>
> > For an encyclopedia, the vast bulk of what we're trying to do is to
> > simply convey the top level survey of a field to the general public.
>
> You are arguing that for an encyclopedia, unlike for the academia,
> reliability and fact-checking are not important.

No, please.  That's not what I said at all.

> The academic rigor exists not just due to their elitism: that's how
> the Academia mentains their high standards of its publications.
>
> From my experience on Wikipedia, unsourced articles are very unreliable
> and may have plenty of wrong facts. Most of thse wrong facts are not
> added due to malice (though that is not uncommon), but they were
> added by people either from their (inevitable unreliable) memories,
> from blogs and forums, which, on average have an awful lack of
> accuracy or they are simply misinterpretations.