[WikiEN-l] Jimbo on "reliable sources"

[David Gerard]

On 30/05/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/wikipedia_is_ju.html

> It says: "Rather than specifying at the beginning what the rules would
> be, Wales let the community evolve its own rules, in response to real
> needs."
> Not quite true, though. NPOV and NOR were pivotal in making Wikipedia work.


I'm particularly talking about idiocy like declaring all blogs verboten.


- d.