On 3/21/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
That's exactly what people are meant to be not doing. You shouldn't be writing based on your own knowledge, you should be writing based on reliable sources. What's the points of writing from your own knowledge if you have to go and check a reliable source anyway? Just check the source first...
No, read up on [[WP:ATT]]. In general, it's ok to state any fact which has already been published. If you're 95%+ sure that a relevant fact has been published, you might as well just add it, especially if you're creating a stub. If we survived 5 years without the stub, we can probably survive a few weeks or months with an unsourced but generally accurate stub.
Steve