On 5/18/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I object to any proposals that rely on challenges, requests, original authors etc. The wiki model explicitly rejects the idea that the original author is going to hang around or is contactable or responsible for his contributions. Once the article is written, all future contributors should be equally responsible for its content, no?
Exactly! An uncited fact should not be a battleground between opposing political viewpoints, where one side challenges the other with "Either source this or I'm removing this fact I don't like immediately". Once an challenged fact has been in the article a while, for years in some cases, all editors on an article should share the responsibility of researching and verifying, not just those of a certain political affiliation.