On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that some Wikipedians still need to learn that
the
demand for substantiation can sometimes be taken to extremes when they
expect proof for "facts" that are a part of common knowledge.
In my experience, often the users know better and they're just gaming the
system--they want to delete something they know very well is true, so they
insincerely question it. If they get lucky nobody will provide a source and
they can delete it.