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

[Ray Saintonge]

Bogdan Giusca wrote:

>Thursday, January 25, 2007, 6:25:38 PM, Ken wrote:
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>>WP:CITE and WP:RS are unreasonably easy to abuse
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>What you call "abuse", others call improval of the sourcing and
>of the verifiability, and of therefore the credibility of Wikipedia.
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What you are supporting is a what-do-the-neighbors-think kind of 
credibility.

>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.
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I am critical of them but do not write about any of the subjects you note.

>Those areas are not the core of an encyclopedia and protecting those
>areas should should not result in the compromising the rest of
>Wikipedia.
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>We can't have two sets of rules: one for cruft and one for the rest.
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Your use of the word "cruft" suggests that your opinion is not unbiased

>There are plenty of wikis for obscure stuff which fail our current
>policies on verifiability.
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When was obscurity ever a criterion?

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