[WikiEN-l] Citation obsession

Chris Lüer chris at zandria.net
Sun Apr 29 15:24:33 UTC 2007


At 04:07 AM 4/29/2007, Todd Allen wrote:
>I don't generally see such things as worth arguing over. If someone
>-really- wants a citation for that, or that the Earth's atmosphere is
>mainly nitrogen and oxygen, or that Einstein was a physicist, you can
>find one in thirty seconds. If something is really as obvious as you
>think it is, citation is trivially easy.

The problem is that you can find a citation for the opposite in 30 
seconds, too.

The goal should not be to have lots of citations, but good ones.

         Chris
          




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