Phil Sandifer wrote:
If Susan can make the edit from memory, we're good. But if Susan has to go Google the fact to find it somewhere else, we're already losing precious seconds of Susan's time.
But how does that work out overall, when you save seconds of Susan's time, and cost me a half-hour of research to figure out why an article is inconsistent with all the ones it links with? Scholarship is tricky enough on its own, we don't need to make it harder by mixing in a bunch of random half-remembered bits.
Stan