On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:39, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Just to highlight my earlier point about sourcing, the article on Florence > currently says: > > Opera was invented in Florence. > > > This happens to be true - but I have no proof of it, and it may well simply > be the opinion of the original writer. Much of the rest of the historical > section is the same; it is encyclopaedic detail about the city, spiced up > for travel guide purposes. I have no issue with the spicing up (it is > appropriate in the context), but I think this is the sort of content that > can/should be sourced to help the reader be assured the material is true in > at least some way (even if there is subjective opinion mixed in). Maybe, but I worry that it's a slippery slope. A travel guide is not an encyclopaedia. Maybe we should just offload the history section to Wikipedia? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
