On Feb 1, 2008 7:27 PM, Carl Beckhorn cbeckhorn@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.