Phil Boswell wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
I'd like to see some study done that checks how many people would actually participate in a massive spring-like cleanup that would involve sourcing lacking articles.
Sadly I think what you would attract is those who would prefer to spend 5 seconds pasting "DELETE THIS UNSOURCED MONSTROSITY NOW!!!" over each and every article rather than the few who could afford to spend much longer actually finding proper sources and formatting them sufficiently to appease the citation police.
We would be in the position where we were overwhelmed by articles tagged for deletion, rather than by those tagged for sourcing, and much less time in which to attempt to deal with them.
Then too when simplistic policies are adopted that offer a panacea to some major problem there is no shortage of idiots willing to enforce the policy literally and strictly.
If Jimbo speaks of "crap unsourced articles", the idiots will immediately draw the conclusion that all unsourced articles are crap.
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