Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-elitism
Articles should be written FROM |sources. The person writing an article should be looking at a source and writing FROM that source. Wikipedia is |not a place for unpublished facts, arguments, concepts, statements, or theories. I think it is wrong to write something and ask others to research a topic for you. Wikipedia is not here to do your homework for you. The burden of evidence lies with the WRITER, not the READER. If the writer of the material is too lazy to research a topic themselves and cite their sources, why should the reader have to make up for it? The fact is that Wikipedia articles can start rumors and they can snowball. Here's a post on kuro5hin by Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia and founder of Citizendium (or someone using his name) http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25, about anti-elitism on Wikipedia -- although I don't think kuro5hin is a reliable source; it probably counts as a self-published source
— User:Pixelface, 14:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:NOR (Wikipedia:Verifiability)