Ray Saintonge wrote:
Matthew Brown wrote:
On 6/16/07, Jossi Fresco jossifresco@mac.com wrote:
A Wikiproject to "eliminate unreferenced articles"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Unreferenced_articles
This seems a bit excessive.
Well, it depends how that elimination is being done - by adding references is quite OK, for instance. By nominating for deletion things that no references can be found for after an exhausting search is also OK in my book.
Experience shows that the "exhausting search" is not always there. Sometimes there is no search before nomination; perhaps a nomination should show evidence that some searchging has happened.
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Or we could go the other way, and say that an -article- should show some evidence that searching has happened.
WP:V:
"The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material."
You write an article, it is -your job- to source it, not someone else's. If you're just hacking at it from memory...well what are you writing it for in the first place, find sources first!