[WikiEN-l] Defeat: Notability is Policy

[Philip Sandifer]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
>
> Time? Why should you be creating new stubs that are unsourced at  
> all? I
> don't create an article unless I have source material available.

Good for you. When we update the site code to read "Edit this page if  
you have source material avaliable" instead of "edit this page" that  
will be a reasonable expectation to apply to others. The entire  
project, let's note, was built on people wandering by an adding a fact  
they happened to know, with the idea that mass untrained peer review  
would be good enough to get a working project. Citing sources is one  
of the ways we get to that point, but we have to remember: the project  
is designed to be editable by anyone in a casual and volunteer manner.  
We hurt ourselves if we expect everybody to have multiple sources on  
hand before they edit or create an article.

-Phil