On 07/04/2008, Wily D wilydoppelganger@gmail.com wrote:
The converse is, when we say "use your good judgement and own knowledge" we enter unsolvable conflicts. Excessive sourcing is the only way to resolve this - in an article like Evolution or Armenian Genocide, you simply source the fuck out of everything and tell those acting in bad faith to take a hike - as it stands, on Wikipedia, there's no other way to deal with this. Attacking V/NOR et al. without replacing the absolutely critical functions it does perform would be suicidal.
The trouble is that building a structure rigid enough to deal with bad faith or even just blithering stupidity is utterly unsuitable for use by clueful editors of good faith, and is actually actively damaging right now.
You are not going to solve malice or cluelessness with a set of rules. I think the failure of the current incarnations to do so demonstrates this, and I really doubt the solution is more of the same.
- d.