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

dmehkeri at swi.com dmehkeri at swi.com
Thu Jan 25 20:16:43 UTC 2007


> 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.
> 

This may be true. But my sense is that most of the right facts were also added
the same way.

Similarly, most vandalism is done anonymously, but most anonymous edits are not
vandalism.

Dan





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