LDan wrote:
Almost all of Wikipedia is unsourced!
Yeah, so? And the great, great majority of that information is easily confirmed. We are talking about the stuff that cannot be easily confirmed /when somebody checks/.
If you have a question about the source, just ask whoever wrote it.
That isn't always so easy. Besides the question has to do with the article, so the best place for that is the talk page. You are operating on the assumption that the person who wrote the material is really the only person who could answer the question - not so. If the material is in fact legit, then any number of people who visit that article's talk page can respond.
That way, they will be a lot quicker to respond.
If the removal is more than a smallish paragraph, then it would make sense to also inform the user directly. But, only when this info is easily obtained without having to sort through dozens of diffs.
I almost never watch articles I write,
That is your choice.
and if someone took off some of my content because it's"unsourced", there's little chance I'd go back
and
find it and write the source.
If you care about that, then hit 'Watch this page' more often.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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