[WikiEN-l] Reliable sources— some of these babies are ugly
Philip Sandifer
snowspinner at gmail.com
Fri May 21 19:13:31 UTC 2010
On May 21, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
> On 21/05/2010, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, but the last guy I saw adding them was...
>>
>> Umm...
>>
>> Right, there's the issue.
>
> What issue? We don't want people removing valid references. In many
> cases references are the most important bits of the whole article.
>
> Note that sock puppet abuse is covered by policy also, using a sock to
> repeatedly remove references will certainly get you blocked, as this
> individual involved found out.
>
> I would argue the other way- sticking to English-only references is
> unequivocally harmful for the project.
You're missing my sarcasm.
Yes, we do a good job of punishing removal of non-English references. But we still do an awful job of *adding* non-English references.
-Phil
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