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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