Wikipedia and a little piece of Python History

[Paul Rubin]

Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp at snipabacken.dyndns.org> writes:
> Wikipedia should have some guideline for referencing Usenet postings,
> somewhere ...

It has one (WP:RS).  The guideline is don't do it.  The problem is
that these guidelines arise out of disputes, i.e. maybe someone tried
to use a Usenet post to prove something about a politician, and the
result (reasonably) was a guideline that said Usenet posts weren't
reliable sources of info.  In the cases where it's something ok, the
editors use common sense and leave it alone.  Until that bot got loose
and started removing all Usenet links whether they were ok or not.