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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Jan 26 19:53:19 UTC 2007


George Herbert wrote:

>On 1/25/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>From my experience on Wikipedia, unsourced articles are very unreliable
>>and may have plenty of wrong facts. Most of thse wrong facts are not
>>added due to malice (though that is not uncommon), but they were
>>added by people either from their (inevitable unreliable) memories,
>>from blogs and forums, which, on average have an awful lack of
>>accuracy or they are simply misinterpretations.
>>    
>>
>From my experience with Wikipedia, unsourced articles are generally
>very accurate and moderately precise.  When I find them in areas for
>which I'm familiar with the body of knowledge and reliable sources, I
>will spend time to go find the appropriate citations and sources as
>time allows, to "back up" the already existing content with
>appropriate references.
>
Time spent doing this is far more productive than time spent complaining 
about what others don't do.

Ec




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