[OSM-talk] Call for verification (Was: Re: VANDALISM !)

Jo winfixit at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 09:44:49 UTC 2020


On Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 11:30 pangoSE <pangose at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi 😀
>
> Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> skrev: (22 augusti 2020
> 10:51:49 CEST)
> >(1) Wikipedia may strongly encourage or mandate it in theory, but there
> >are
> >still edits being made without any citations
>
> Yeah I know, but the point is its really hard to create a new article in
> WP without references without it being flagged for deletion. So by
> "threatening" with deletion they raise the bar for inclusion and hence
> hopefully raise the quality too. We have no system to flag for deletion,
> nor to verify an object.
>

I find this highly annoying on Wikipedia and it is the reason I don't
contribute there anymore.
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