From: "James Hare" messedrocker@gmail.com

I was thinking of an idea that articles could be trimmed down to what's been sourced and the longer (albeit unsourced) article could go to some sort of Crappopedia where it awaits confirmation. Stuff that is confirmed with a source could be added back. That way, Wikipedia could maintain integrity and the other wiki could be a development grounds.

My own suggestion would be:

a) that the reference apparatus should delineate the _range_ of text that's being referenced (not just the _end_ of the text that's being referenced);

b) that the default display of an article should use a fairly subtle difference in color between referenced text (black) and unreferenced text (a dark tint of some dark color--perhaps Zune brown to suggest "crap"), with of course a user preference to change this.

User preferences could include

a) any color combination, including no distinction between referenced and unreferenced (which would also suppress superscripted footnote numbers), and

b) hide unreferenced text.

I don't think it's all that hard to imagine solutions, provided what we want to do is solve the problem, as opposed to battling between the existing unsatisfactory alternatives of deleting unsourced text, marking it and deleting it sometime much later, or leaving it in forever without any ugly marks in hopes that "eventually" someone will source it.