[WikiEN-l] The Curious Incident of the Fans in the Night

[David Gerard]

2010/1/18 Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>:

> The problem is that Wikipedia policies pretty much encourage editors to
> filibuster changes they don't like by demanding sources and questioning the
> sources.  This is useful when there's a serious question about whether the
> information is accurate, but it's also abused when there's no serious question
> about the information's accuracy and the request for sources is used to block
> something they want to exclude for other reasons.  If someone then provides a
> valid source anyway, the source just gets repeatedly questioned regardles of
> whether it follows Wikipedia's sourcing rules.


If they want to filibuster the reliability of this source, it speaks
of some child being Robert Heinlein's great-grandson ... Heinlein
didn't have any children. I wonder where they got that from.


- d.