Robth wrote:
What citations do is massively simplify the process of verifying any given statement. If a statement is not specifically cited, it could, for all the reader knows, come from anywhere in any of the books used as references, which, on most articles, would be a large amount of material to go through looking for confirmation of one specific statement.
In the case in question, though, only a handful of short articles were cited, so this isn't an issue.
-Mark