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

[Steve Bennett]

On 1/26/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's more than just that. I recently wrote a stub on [[Wingan Inlet]].
I know the place exists: I went there. Do I have a source? No. Am I
confident that a source exists? Yes. Would I rather create an
unsourced stub, or leave a hole in our encyclopaedia? Unsourced stub,
with fries.

Steve