"Stephen Bain" wrote
But I think his point was something in the interface saying that completely unsourced articles are likely to be deleted is prudent, since everyone agrees that having no sources at all is bad.
What is bad, to look at what WP:RS itself, is having material 'likely to be challenged' without support. I don't agree that a page of college-level calculus, known and uncontroversial for two centuries, should be deleted for the pedantic reason that it isn't referenced.
Charles
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charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Stephen Bain" wrote
But I think his point was something in the interface saying that completely unsourced articles are likely to be deleted is prudent, since everyone agrees that having no sources at all is bad.
What is bad, to look at what WP:RS itself, is having material 'likely to be challenged' without support. I don't agree that a page of college-level calculus, known and uncontroversial for two centuries, should be deleted for the pedantic reason that it isn't referenced.
... I'll have to go borrow myself a college-level (/me presumes that means "University" not "secondary school") calculus textbook and put some references in, then. (Very few students actually buy the things because the material in them is available via lecture notes, MathWorld, Wikipedia, or the copy in the library...)