On 10/28/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes. All the same, deletion of accurate material is
unfortunate. We
need to aspire to a level of sensibleness in demanding sources and
especially in removing material. An article that is accurate but
lacks sources is an article in need of sources, not an article in
need of gutting.
It's often easier to write an article from information, then it is to
take a written article and match sources to pre-written information...
The is especially true when working with dead-tree resources because
searching dead-trees for facts in random orders is so slow.
We're not feeling the pain yet, but false source vandalism is bound to
become a notable form of intentional vandalism which we will have a
difficult time preventing unless we make some difficult changes to our
sourcing policy.