NEW IDEAS

Fragment of a discussion from Talk:May 2011 Update

Never going to happen, and for good reason. It's usually the most unscientific, ideological, or self-promoting editors who have the patience to scream "it's true!" until they're blue in the face. And if original research is allowed, who are you to tell them they're wrong? If you don't have a reference, truth is measured by popularity and zeal, and the encyclopedia is stupider for it.

So far, the only way to be able to settle disputes about truth has been to verify it in a source of sufficient reliability.

If you want to advance the pool of knowledge, write a paper and get it published in an academic journal.

Randomran13:14, 15 August 2011