At 08:55 AM 10/2/02 -0700, you wrote:
--- Vicki Rosenzweig vr@redbird.org wrote:
In general, I think this is a good use for Talk pages.
I disagree: sources are a vital part of the article and should not be hidden away in an area that most readers will never find. I think of Talk as short term discussions aimed at improving an article, not as a depository of meta information. If all Talk pages are deleted tomorrow, the encyclopedia should still be self-contained and complete.
Sources are extremely useful information; it's impossible to evaluate material without sources. Why would we possibly hide that information from readers?
I was thinking of notes like "this is based on an article from X paper" or "I googled and found a few sites", when the specific article or sites aren't given, not references to books or research papers.