On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:16 AM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
If people cited their sources in the first place,
there wouldn't be
any
abuse by people using that fact to get it deleted. Any abuse with
these
policies can be prevented if people just made the effort. I think
I'm going
to reread those pages and think about rewriting them.
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.
-Phil