On Feb 1, 2008 7:27 PM, Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:20:27AM +0000, Thomas
Dalton wrote:
We now do require people source things, we just
aren't very good
at enforcing it (I believe it was Jimbo that said people shouldn't
be tagging dubious statements with {{fact}}, they should just be
removing them completely).
We only require sources for quotes and facts that are challenged or
"likely to be challenged", a compromise that I think is reasonable
enough. Jimbo is right that dubious claims should be removed to the
talk page - but only because they are dubious, not be because they
are unsourced.
Moving to the talk page is different from deleting, anyway. If
completely unsourced articles were moved to their talk page, rather
than deleted, I think you'd get fewer objections. But I suppose
preventing the deletion of talk pages which have no corresponding
article is a battle that was lost long ago.