Cheney Shill wrote:
George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Ultimately, policy and consensus now are that you don't have to cite every single fact or sentence in every single Wikipedia article, and that over-citing is harmful.
Interesting, but policy is policy, not your opinion or consensus, both of which you have no NPOV reliable sources for. Besides this discussion is with regard to articles that are completely uncited. In other words, you're providing a false dilemma. It's not about citing every last fact or deleting the article. It's about getting substantial ("significant") reliable sources cited, as is clearly and repeatedly stated in policy and guidelines.
Oh please! Consensus guides policy, not the other way around which would be wikilawyering.
The most valuable editors are the ones who are able to look at a completely unsourced article and make a personal judgement about whether the continuing absence of sources is harmful of misleading. They are able to evaluate whether it is important to immediately add sources.
There is no dilemma, false or otherwise.
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