[WikiEN-l] insist on sources

[Stan Shebs]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:34:18 -0700, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com>
>wrote:
>
>
>>In practice (maybe I'm not looking in the right places), I don't
>>see much resistance to someone taking the initiative to remove
>>unsourced material. The problem is more that the scribbling is
>>outpacing the reviewing.
>>
>
>Depends.  I have been involved in several extremely bitter edit wars
>over the insertion of highly questionable content whose removal is
>condemned as "suppressing information".
>
Yeah, I've been working more in the science area these days, and
not only does it tend to have fewer rabid partisans, but there is
an ever-so-gradual influx of professional scientists for whom adding
citations is as natural as breathing. (Not long ago, I narrowly saved
myself from embarassment when I was about to disagree with an editor
on a fine point, then realized he was the very author of the printed
material open on my lap...)

Stan