Emily Monroe wrote:
This conversation seems to be getting a little steeped in "attack" mode, doesn't it?
That was an honest, legitimate hypothetical question of mine. I addressed it primarily to Will, and secondarily to everybody. I never mean to attack anyone. I wouldn't live with my conscious if I had lived a life like that. If I did unintentionally attack *anyone*, then I owe an apology to Will and the list that I'm offering now.
I apologise for making it unclear that I was talking about the tone of the conversation as a whole rather than your comments specifically.
So my question at this point in the debate would be to ask myself why someone who lives "in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or days even)" would be overly bothered about verifying right that second.
I didn't mean to imply that they would be bothered about verifying references right that second. I was starting to read into this debate (and maybe it's just me) that every Wikipedian should be bothered about verifying right that second. I was proven wrong when Will pointed out that that wasn't his point.
My apologies for not having got to that point in the conversation at the time I replied.