Wikipedia talk:Commonsense on sources

Suggestions
You asked for suggestions... Here's some:
 * 1) Write it as if it were a guideline. That way you are more likely to have is accepted as a guideline.
 * 2) Drop the polemic. I know you think this idea can replace PSTS, but that isn't the basis of the guideline.  As I suggested before, I wouldn't bring up PSTS until after it is accepted as a guideline.  Probably not for quite a while after... best let people get used to the idea and how helpful it is first.  I seemed to have managed to freak out some people by just suggesting that PSTS should be moved from a section in WP:NOR to its own guideline.
 * 3) Think of a different name. “Common sense on sourcing” sounds a bit like the name of a pressure group or something.  Also, the meaning of common sense in Wikipedia is a bit different to how you are using it here.
 * 4) Think how the essay fits with Wikipedia policies and guidelines. It is obviously an application of WP:Verifiability.  Perhaps that could inspire the name “Verification of different types of statement.”

Yaris678 (talk) 21:51, 31 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I decided to WP:Just do it. Or at least do some of the things I suggested above.  I thought moving the essay that you had created yourself was perhaps a little too bold so I created a separate one called Verifying different types of statement.  What do you reckon?  Yaris678 (talk) 18:57, 1 February 2010 (UTC)