[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as print source

[Ken Arromdee]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, geni wrote:
> > Of course, now that it's in a published book, we can use that as a source.
> >
> > And we can't reject it on the grounds that it's a mistake taken from
> > Wikipedia, because we don't have a reliable source stating it's a mistake.
> 
> This has happened before. We apply IAR.

I was alluding to the Tessaiga example, where no IAR was applied.

IAR doesn't work too well when there are guideline wonks who want the
guideline followed at any cost.