[WikiEN-l] Jimbo on "reliable sources"

[Gabe Johnson]

On 5/30/07, 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.
>
As I understand it, NPOV *was* there from the beginning, but NOR was
developed to deal with pseudoscientific physicist kooks.

Also see [[User:Kim Bruning/Lost functionalities]]. ~~~~

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