On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Erik Moeller wrote: >> I doubt that the responsible Slashdot editor was aware that they were >> falling for a troll. Is there a lesson here somewhere? If so, it's >> perhaps that documentation of subcultures in Wikipedia is very much >> worth doing. > > Wikipiedia has a general problem with sourcing anything that mainly appears > on the Internet, because anything that is written in a personal website, > blog, etc. is not considered professionally published and fails the reliable > sources and self-published tests. >
Or rather, the tests consistently fail the laugh test, but we as a community are too tight-sphinctered about our respectability to mind we fail big time in the comprehensivity department... /dour-sarcasm -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
