[WikiEN-l] "Reliable sources" guideline being treated as absolute policy

[Andrew Gray]

On 28/11/06, Rob Smith <nobs03 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about were a systematic effort to remove sources is underway?  As
> in this article
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Coe&diff=next&oldid=34386640

How... entirely irrelevant.

Because, when you look at the *other* edits made at the same time...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Coe&diff=34387074&oldid=31308453

...you find that the material to which the source referred was taken
out, and the editor simply took six edits to do it all. Leaving the
source in, if the information to which it refers is gone, would be,
er, somewhat pointless and misleading.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Coe&diff=39262981&oldid=39262903

...the same situation again.

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