On 3/31/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@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