[WikiEN-l] Nuke [[WP:CITE]] and [[WP:RS]]

[Phil Sandifer]

On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:16 AM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

> If people cited their sources in the first place, there wouldn't be  
> any
> abuse by people using that fact to get it deleted. Any abuse with  
> these
> policies can be prevented if people just made the effort. I think  
> I'm going
> to reread those pages and think about rewriting them.

But this is one of the problems. The burden of citing everything is  
larger than our editors, especially our casual editors, are willing  
to undertake. We will never reach a point where people will cite  
their sources in the first place. Hence the prospect of eternally  
playing catch-up.

-Phil