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

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:

>>Citations, fact checking, and minor corrections are EXCELLENT things
>>to leave for others, or for later review by yourself.
>>    
>>
>
>Leaving citations for someone else is complete nonsense. It shows that
>you didn't understand the paragraph of mine you quoted. A citation
>says where you got the source from. If you write and article, and then
>I come along, I have no idea where you got the source from, it is
>impossible for me to add the citation. I can add a link to somewhere
>that says the same thing, but that's not citing sources, because
>whatever I link to probably wasn't actually the source. Me adding
>sources to your article is basically me rewriting the article - your
>work becomes nothing more than copyediting that happened to be done
>before I wrote the article (and yes, that doesn't make sense - that's
>the point I'm trying to make).
>
We are a tertiary resource.  If two Wikipedians used different sources 
to arrive at the same place it makes no difference in the way that it 
would for a secondary source.  Your argument is just strange.  It seems 
to make the specific source more important than the information itself. 

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