[WikiEN-l] Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information

[Jimmy Wales]

Philip Welch wrote:
> On May 18, 2006, at 2:48 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> 
>> If we don't want unsourced material, why have we tolerated it so long?
> 
> This could be a change in what's considered acceptable rather than an  
> eternal law. Early in Wikipedia's development, we took what we could  
> get. Now that we have a crapload of content, we can set stricter rules.

Absolutely.

We have how many new articles a day?  If people had the good sense to
nuke 100 articles a day, just on the grounds of being BAD in the sense
we are discussing (having unsourced claims about living people which
would be libel if false), our growth rate would hardly suffer at all.

We are a massively powerful text generation engine.  People have to drop
the idea that every little tidbit is precious.  Crap is crap.  Yank it.



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