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

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:

>>I recently wrote a stub on [[Heliophorus]], a genus of butterflies. It
>>links the existing article on its subfamily with the existing articles
>>of the species. As the subfamily article only lists genera, my new
>>article is the only way to go from the subfamily article to the
>>individual species. It is therefore useful, even though it contains
>>nothing more than a partial list of species.
>>
>>I created this list from wikipedia: it just contains all species that
>>have an article. If I had to list my source, it would have been
>>"Wikipedia", which is Not Acceptable, and would have been removed (I
>>guess). So I left it unsourced.
>>    
>>
>Your article is basically a list - using Wikipedia as the source for a
>list is generally accepted. As long as the articles you link to have
>sources, then the sources don't need to be stated on the list.
>
This seems contrary to a recent thread about a list of people 
responsible for the death of someone else. O:-)
I made the same argument at the time.  Accepting that such criteria may 
be valid in some circumstances should not imply that the requirement 
should be there for all circumstnaces.

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