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

[Ray Saintonge]

Stan Shebs wrote:

>Phil Sandifer wrote:
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>>If Susan can make the edit from memory, we're good. But if Susan has  
>>to go Google the fact to find it somewhere else, we're already losing  
>>precious seconds of Susan's time.
>>    
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>But how does that work out overall, when you save seconds of Susan's 
>time, and cost me a half-hour of research to figure out why an article 
>is inconsistent with all the ones it links with? Scholarship is tricky 
>enough on its own, we don't need to make it harder by mixing in a bunch 
>of random half-remembered bits.
>
This is one of those half-empty or half-full kinds of arguments.  
Without Susan's edit her idea might never have been raised.  What she 
sees as half-full you see as half-empty.  You evidently enjoyed your 
half-hour of research, or you would not have done it.  The point that 
she made was worth that much of your time.  At least you researched it.  
The one who simply dismisses her comments out of hand and without 
comment is really committing the same error that she did.

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