On 29/09/06, Nathaniel Sheetz <preparing(a)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.