On 29/09/06, Nathaniel Sheetz preparing@psu.edu wrote:
Also, in response to the original post, citations do more than just serve as a way to verify the facts of an article. They also show where the material came from, which is helpful for anyone doing research on a topic (high school, college, etc.) who can't directly cite Wikipedia (not many teachers allow that). Our articles need to be written so that they can be used by as many people as possible, and I think that one way to do that is to religiously cite sources.
A separate ==Sources== section can be good for this.
Nathaniel ([[User:Spangineer]], a real nuisance to many on FAC when it comes to citations)
Verifiability is important and in most cases, references are *good* - the reader has no idea who the authors are, so only has the text and maybe what references are clickable to figure out the text's value from. Do please continue :-)
- d.