On 7/11/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
What if the material is accurate and can be checked with a quick google search?
The burden of proof is always on the person adding the information.
Not to the extent of removeing the material.
"Source" does not mean "somewhere which can be used to verify the information", it means "the place where the information came from". Only the person that added the information actually knows the source, so they should be the one citing sources.
However we use the word references rather than sources.
The whole idea of adding sources to existing articles is completely backward. We need to work on getting people to actually *use* reliable sources, not just cite them. If people were actually using the sources then they could cite them as they went along with almost no additional work.
Depends. Refing [[Stroudwater Navigation]] was a pain in the neck even though I had the main source in front of me the whole time.
[[Canal#Features]] would be much more of a pain. The problem is that it jumps between levels of complexity so some you would be looking at citeing from a school textbook and others from wighter tomes.
The effort required is such that if I was required to do it that article would still look like this
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canal&oldid=132489555
Which isn't really B class despite the claims on the talk page (I would argue the current version is just about).