On 1/26/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
But this is one of the problems. The burden of citing everything is larger than our editors, especially our casual editors, are willing to undertake. We will never reach a point where people will cite their sources in the first place. Hence the prospect of eternally playing catch-up.
It's more than just that. I recently wrote a stub on [[Wingan Inlet]]. I know the place exists: I went there. Do I have a source? No. Am I confident that a source exists? Yes. Would I rather create an unsourced stub, or leave a hole in our encyclopaedia? Unsourced stub, with fries.
Steve