[WikiEN-l] Another sourcing problem

Ian Woollard ian.woollard at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 23:49:40 UTC 2010


On 18/07/2010, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> IAR isn't for a regular, predictable, situation where a generic agreed
> solution would be better, and not for a sourcing issue or "systematic
> problem" like this. More and more often there is a chance (small in any
> given case, large overall) that important information for an article may be
> blog published, so we do have a genuine issue here.

IAR is a rule that was written early-on in the Wikipedia because
particularly then, the rules weren't very good, and this was intended
to allow the Wikipedia to proceed before better rules could be
drafted.

-- 
-Ian Woollard



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