On 22/03/2008, bobolozo bobolozo@yahoo.com wrote:
My question is, is it a good idea to simply go through and remove large numbers of these? Are we better off with no sources at all for portions of text, rather than have references which consist of message board postings and personal websites and such?
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reference). But now, having discovered the ease with which I can find thousands more unreliable sources as references, I'm wondering what others think of the mass removal of unreliable sources. Am I correct in believing that we're better off having an unsourced paragraph of text, rather than a paragraph which has as a reference somedudeswebpage.tripod.com?
Take extreme caution and make damn sure you know the subject area first. "Reliable sources" is entirely relative to the subject area.
Mass removal of references is the sort of thing that has gotten people taken out and shot by the arbitration committee before.
- d.