Re: Wikipedia:Verifiability - Mailing lists as sources

on 2/25/08 1:30 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier at joerg_rhiemeier@WEB.DE wrote:

> Hallo!
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:16:39 +0000, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>
>> That said, I do agree with many of those policies regarding
>> verifiability, notability and original research. But in my view they
>> are pushing it. If it can be proven that something exists and is not
>> the domain of interest of just one or a few persons, that should be
>> enough to warrant an article. If everything you do is constantly
>> being undermined by others, well, for me much of the fun is gone. I'm
>> already tired of it. All that keeps me there is the Constructed
>> Language Portal, which was largely my work and which I'm still quite
>> fond of. If someone else would do the job for me, I'd be more than
>> happy and withdraw from WP.EN altogether.
>
> I wholeheartedly agree with you.  While I never was heavily involved
> with writing for Wikipedia (though I have made a few minor contributions
> to both the English and the German WP), the project has lost much of
> the coolness it once had for me.  It is still a very useful reference,
> but how much of it will stay if the deletionists continue to get their
> way?  Well, we should keep up the Constructed Languages Portal and
> otherwise focus on our own wikis (such as FrathWiki, whither leads
> a link from the WP portal).
The deletionists are mostly socio-political ideologues who are no better
than Holocaust-denyin' "Historical Revisionists." Oddly most are
Right-Wingers and other Rightists (and a smatterin' of Stalinistic or
hardcore Marxist or Maoist Leftists).

Stella Bella and I have locked horns with them quite often in Stella Bella
and my wikipedia and wikifur proofreadin' & fact-checkin' contributions.

"Data seeks to be free..."


--

Imagine a world without hypothetical situations.

In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in
practice...
--
We are sorry, you have reached an imaginary number.
Please rotate your phone ninety degrees and try again.