[WikiEN-l] "Articles that do not cite reliable published sources will be deleted."

[Delirium]

Cheney Shill wrote:
> --- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Cheney Shill wrote:
>>
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>> In practice, yes, if:
>> 1) The information looks likely to be correct; and
>>     
>
> Problem is that's subjective.  How does one determine what
> is or is not likely?
>   
Of course---the entire process of writing an encyclopedia requires some 
amount of human intelligence, which is why we've gone out and gotten 
people to work on it.  Whether to delete an unreferenced 
article-in-progress or leave it to be improved is a subjective decision 
weighing the pros and cons of each.  Actually, this is true even of 
referenced articles, since it takes very little effort to construct a 
completely misleading---but referenced---article.

-Mark