[WikiEN-l] Defeat: Notability is Policy

[White Cat]

Oh indeed. Wikipedia itself is tagged with a giant {{fact}} tag (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer). And the finish
product is "featured articles" and even then those typically have room for
improvement. People should not treat wikipedia like a inished product. It
isn't and it will never ever be complete as human knowledge grows over time.

On Feb 2, 2008 5:21 AM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:

> George Herbert wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 2008 4:47 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 02/02/2008, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On 02/02/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> That was the original idea, I agree, but we've moved on from that.
> >>>
> >>> Not remotely. Vast majority of our information is uncited.
> >>
> >> And that's a bag thing.
> >
> > I assume you meant "bad"
> >
> > In my opinion, yes - it would be nice to have a cite for everything.
> >
> > It's also a horrible mistake to, for example, run through WP articles
> > and either delete everything that isn't cited, or all articles without
> > RS, or both.
>
> Indeed.
>
> It's important to remember that {{fact}} means "This fact is
> uncited, so you, the reader, might want to take it with more
> grains of salt than usual."  It most certainly does *NOT* mean,
> "this uncited fact will be deleted forthwith if you, the POV
> editor who inserted it, do not supply a citation (to my
> satisfaction) pronto."
>
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