Having citations is a good thing but please realise
that it is best
used when controversies arise.
Having citations is fundamental to being a good reference work.
This is *not* ( I say it again ) related to deletion policy.
SJ
Yes SJ you will be able to handle it in a correct matter and so will
many other wikipedians. But you must admit we have a group of users
who will read this and take it as a golden rule and start upsetting
people. There are lots of wikipedians who simply do not read something
as a whole. They just read MUST CITE and that is what they'll remember
and they go on causing havoc. And it will be worse in other languages.
More than once I had to stop somebody who was citing english wikipedia
rules which are not applicable to nl.wikipedia.
Now you and me unfortunately do not have the time to watch the
respective wikis we work on 24 hours a day. So before you start
writing this down please thank about it.
It's always comforting to hear voices of reason. :-)
Unfortunately those who fixate on "MUST CITE" are also prone to ignore
<big><bold>MUST USE COMMON SENSE</bold></big>. Sigh! Is a four
word
rule so much more difficult than a two word rule? ... even when you
point out that there is an identical word in both?
Ec