2009/1/12 WJhonson@aol.com:
Well your "querulous and idiotic" is someone else's "attempt to ensure the source is reliable".
Well, not really. If they don't believe a given item can have reliable sources - the sort of rabid nutters who brag about deletion tallies on their user pages - then they just won't accept anything. I speak here from observation of the phenomenon.
- d.