[Foundation-l] Sources and sourceability

[Sabine Cretella]

>> When you talk about "cite sources" never ever put it into connection 
>> to people editing and adding contents - it must be seen as something 
>> separate - many people are not able to "separate" things themselves 
>> they will combine and make something different out of all this.
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> What does this mean?  How can citations be separate from adding content?
> Only the person adding a fact actually knows where it came from; other 
> people can do nothing but guess.

No: if I can add things I do - but I must not add anything.

For example: I know loads of stuff because of my job, but I cannot give 
you a source at once that confirms it - if I must research for that 
source to contribute I simply will not contribute, since I have only a 
certain amount of time. Someone else who knows a source that confirms it 
can add it - otherwise: well you will need to rely on what I learnt 
during the past 40 years ...

Whoever believes without asking in something written ... well ... if I 
do a research on a certain topic I do not only believe what is written 
in one encyclopaedia (take Brockhaus and Treccani - they sometimes 
differ a bit), but I have a look at other sources as well ... so what I 
learnt comes out of reading many, many books, letters, questions and 
answers, e-mails, websites, notes, whitepapers and whatever - all is 
somewhat related and confirmed. I know that I can rely on it - certainly 
I am not even able to research again all what I learnt only during the 
past 10 years (and I am not willing to do it - it would be like saying 
to a professor: when you give lessons you need to show me where you 
learnt your lessons and where what you say is confirmed).

Ciao, Sabine

	

	
		
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