Steve Bennett wrote:
You make some very good points. One concern I have is that we lack the tools for users to share their tentative sources. Where exactly would a user note "Think I this in one of Chomsky's earlier works"? In the comment? In a <!-- comment -->? Starting a separate section on the talk page just for a single sentence?
I have done all of these at different times, sometimes more than one at once.
You shouldn't go too far wrong if you keep in mind that you're writing this for the editors that follow you - that the aim is verifiability and/or to honestly note when you have a source but don't think you have the very best one, or when you're doing it from memory, so that others can improve or correct as is appropriate to Getting It Right.
Is that a sufficient guideline for people's editorial judgement?
- d.