Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia is a work in progress

Problem of addition

From the essay: "...There are also many more thousands of one- or two-sentence stubs; adding a few more sentences ... will vastly improve that article."
Herein lies a big problem. Adding a sentence or two is almost certainly going to come from my OWN knowledge of the subject. There are three subjects I feel very knowledgeable about, in two of which I am professional. But the summation of policies and guidelines such as Wikipedia:Verifiability (especially), Wikipedia:No_original_research and even the detail of Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view effectively mean that unless the information has been copied from a professional, published in a major publication, available copyright free, then it shouldn't appear. So I can't just quickly add a sentence or two without first finding out who of my colleages might have published similar information somewhere and what the copyright situation is. Oh, and even then I might find that they made a mistake but that's OK because so long as the wrong information can be 'verified' that's what policies of Wikipedia say should appear here, and not accurate information! --Interesdom 15:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)