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

SPUI drspui at gmail.com
Sun Jan 28 07:50:45 UTC 2007


Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Someone writing an article and expecting someone else to find the
> sources is wasting their time, as the person finding the sources will
> be doing all the work. The actual writing of an article is generally
> the easy part, it's finding the information with is difficult. The
> wiki concept is great at copyediting and making things easier to read,
> and that's the only bit a writer that doesn't cite sources does.

Not true at all. If I write "Route 24 opened in January 1963", but don't 
have a source, someone else with newspaper archive access has a much 
easier time finding a source knowing what month to look in.



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