User talk:Can Journo

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Hi there! Did you mean to wipe out the majority of the Canadian Political Rich List article? Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

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Yes. To avoid potential litigation, and to see how other Wikipedians want to build rich lists of global politicians - England, USA, Pakistan, France, India, Russia, etc. - so that someone can come up with a standard form approach; once locked down it can be used by other writers. Otherwise the entries don't follow proper form and go loopy, instead of being focused. As you know the Wiki is being fact-checked for political entries, this is a good thing, and it needs to get more credibility by having replicable formats that cross national boundries in certain kinds of article. Privacy issues in Canada restrict entries on the wealth of Canadian politicians and how and when they got it, to verfiable super-accurate sources. Otherwise the Wiki gets shut down. So caution is encouraged here. I, personally, will create no more lists, but encourage others to build citations, and perhaps a verifiable list will appear. Can Journo 21:43, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Not only that, Wikipedia is not for original research. Information in Wikipedia should be verifiable outside of Wikipedia. However, there is no need to standardize the formatting of information for all countries. In fact, I think that such a project would quickly become quagmired and never progress at all, if in fact it is useful. -- timc | Talk 17:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC)