[WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia unlikely to result in collapse of knowledge

[Philip Sandifer]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Wilhelm Schnotz wrote:
>> We already do have in a way quality warnings, all the editorial
>> warnings at the top of articles in a way say this article is still in
>> progress. (those that say more sources needed, copyedit needed, etc).
>>
>> We also rank articles by "quality" when wikiprojects do their article
>> classes. In theory an "A" class article is better then a "B" class
>> article, etc.
>
> By the same reasoning used for spoilers, we don't have a source which
> states that an article needs copyediting or that it is class B.   
> (Remember
> that Wikipedia itself isn't a reliable source.)  Making that decision
> ourselves is original research.

Get over yourself, Ken.

-Phil