On 7/19/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a big fan of referencing, but the problem I have is determining what is common knowledge. I think I tend to over-reference (which is preferable to under-referencing). Could someone give me a good measure of where to draw the line?
When in doubt, provide.
We need to build intolerance for missing citations of non-obvious material. Once we've done that the solution simply is to provide citations when every anyone thinks you need them... and then we watch for folks abusing the practice to create disruption and deal with them on a case by case basis.