Fred Bauder wrote:
A better approach is for all of us in our regular editing start gradually asking more often for a reference and do more deleting when it is not provided.
When I do serious editing I am usually working from a book or newspaper article and I have the reference at hand. It would often be very hard for someone else to find that passage just going from whatever I put into a Wikipedia article. So it is easy to put in exact references.
That does not end the matter, but it is a start.
In other words, a good first step is for the experienced editors to be an example.
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