On May 2, 2008, at 12:58 AM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
The problem is not our obsession with sourcing. The problem is the attitude of editors who see something is sourced, and immediately assume the source actually stated the fact/claim.
The latter is a fairly unavoidable consequence of the former, I should think. Or, perhaps more accurately, of applying the former to every statement in every article, which is unmanageable.
-Phil