[WikiEN-l] "Articles that do not cite reliable published sources will be deleted."

[Ray Saintonge]

Bryan Derksen wrote:

>Cheney Shill wrote:
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>>It seems like there has been an extended and unstated
>>policy to create essentially article shells simply to get
>>the article count up and increase Wikipedia's popularity.
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>I've created my share of stubs and this is not even remotely the reason
>why. In most cases it's because I went looking for an article, didn't
>find it, and wanted to get it started so that hopefully others would add
>more detail. Why should I care about Wikipedia's gross article count?
>
>Assume good faith, please.
>
Even if we accept Cheney's premise the practice he describes is likely 
to be ineffectual.  It might work with a small website with less than a 
hundred pages, but in a site with millions of pages the effect of these 
meaningless stubs will be trivial.

>>The alternative seems to be to continue to be the rear end
>>of jokes about knowledge by consensus and hearsay like that
>>on the 1/24 Colbert Report until WP loses what trust it
>>has.
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>That's a false dilemma. While it's true that there are plenty of jokes
>out there about it, there's also a lot of respect and admiration as
>well. I don't see any big risk in continuing as we have been.
>
When you're big the jokes are a natural part of the landscape.  You 
can't do anything about them.

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