bobolozo wrote:
An extreme example of this, but... suppose some spammer goes through and adds references to 1000 articles in random unsourced paragraphs, with the source given being mortgage-refinance-online-low-prices.biz, totally off topic from any of the articles. We're now not allowed to remove this spam without gutting all of these articles or spending hundreds of hours digging up sources?
These I do generally remove. A more realistic example: some spammer operating a travel site goes through and adds their unreliable ad-filled travel-to-some-island.biz site as a "source" for the article on some-island. I usually remove these as spam, as the "source" is worse than not having any, and is in any case spam. Occasionally if it seems like it actually was the source of the information, I'll leave it commented out as a note to future editors.
-Mark