Citations, fact
checking, and minor corrections are EXCELLENT things
to leave for others, or for later review by yourself.
Leaving citations for someone else is complete nonsense. It shows that
you didn't understand the paragraph of mine you quoted. A citation
says where you got the source from. If you write and article, and then
I come along, I have no idea where you got the source from, it is
impossible for me to add the citation. I can add a link to somewhere
that says the same thing, but that's not citing sources, because
whatever I link to probably wasn't actually the source. Me adding
sources to your article is basically me rewriting the article - your
work becomes nothing more than copyediting that happened to be done
before I wrote the article (and yes, that doesn't make sense - that's
the point I'm trying to make).
We are a tertiary resource. If two Wikipedians used different sources
to arrive at the same place it makes no difference in the way that it
would for a secondary source. Your argument is just strange. It seems
to make the specific source more important than the information itself.
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