Phil Sandifer wrote:
I think we need to distinguish among three tiers of information.
- Needs a citation
- Would be nice if it had a citation
- Doesn't need a citation.
Remove all of #1 that lacks a citation. Leave #2 and #3 alone, adding them if you have them handy. But it's non-essential.
Good! ... as long as people are smart enough to understand that applying these tiers to one piece of information is not itself a green light for applying it to the whole article.
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