Daniel Mayer wrote:
And such a requirement would not prevent anybody from adding unsourced material. It would just allow people who like to tag things - and boy does at least the English Wikipedia have plenty of those folks - to tag those articles as needing sources. The tag would serve two roles:
- Tell readers to treat the article very critically,
Why does this need a tag? Cannot a read see for themselves whether or not an article has references? Or are we assuming our readers are idiots who accept everything uncritically unless explicitly told not to?
-Mark