Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
From: "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com
I don't think deleting accurate, high-quality, unreferenced material is in Wikipedia's best interests. Asking for a source, yes. Adding sources, yes. But *deleting* good material? No.
Unsourced material is not high-quality material.
It can be, depending on the circumstances. This isn't something on which categorical statements can be made (or at least one can't expect anything close to consensus on such statements). For example, consider the articles where we imported masses of unreferenced material from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. That's not even high quality stuff by today's standards but it's served as a good foundation for further work.