[WikiEN-l] Defeat: Notability is Policy

[Steven Walling]

That was the original idea, I agree, but we've moved on from that. We
long ago accepted that simply adding what you know doesn't work since
there is no way for people to trust it. We now do require people
source things, we just aren't very good at enforcing it (I believe it
was Jimbo that said people shouldn't be tagging dubious statements
with {{fact}}, they should just be removing them completely).

Exactly. The days of unsourced facts, much less articles, being okay to
leave unchallenged is long over.

On Feb 1, 2008 4:20 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> That was the original idea, I agree, but we've moved on from that. We
> long ago accepted that simply adding what you know doesn't work since
> there is no way for people to trust it. We now do require people
> source things, we just aren't very good at enforcing it (I believe it
> was Jimbo that said people shouldn't be tagging dubious statements
> with {{fact}}, they should just be removing them completely).
>
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