On 3/31/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
Removing all unsourced articles will remove a vast
amount
of useful information, most of which is accurate, and when it is inaccurate
is generally no more so than a typical non-Wikipedia reference anyway.
Furthermore, most of the inaccuracy in Wikipedia, I suspect, was not
cut from whole cloth by the contributor writing the article - but
rather, it comes from an outside source. After all, people get their
facts from somewhere. Sourcing articles doesn't magically make them
accurate. It does perform the useful task of helping someone track
down the source of inaccurate info, however.
Sourcing also makes people actually re-check the place they got the
facts from, sometimes encouraging further reading of it.
-Matt