On 7/28/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Charles Matthews (charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com) [050728 06:51]:
Could be the people who use 'quote your sources' as a way to win arguments, rather than improve the encyclopedia?
Any crank can attach twenty spurious references with no effort at all. But that hardly makes citing one's sources problematic in itself.
Odd you should mention this, David. One particular user attached ten spurious references in a VfD, none of which back him up. But he pretends they do. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/De_fa...