Thomas Dalton wrote:
Someone writing an article and expecting someone else
to find the
sources is wasting their time, as the person finding the sources will
be doing all the work. The actual writing of an article is generally
the easy part, it's finding the information with is difficult. The
wiki concept is great at copyediting and making things easier to read,
and that's the only bit a writer that doesn't cite sources does.
Not true at all. If I write "Route 24 opened in January 1963", but don't
have a source, someone else with newspaper archive access has a much
easier time finding a source knowing what month to look in.