[WikiEN-l] Elimination of unreferenced articles drive?

[Todd Allen]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Matthew Brown wrote:
>
>   
>> On 6/16/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco at mac.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>     
>>> A Wikiproject to "eliminate unreferenced articles"?
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Unreferenced_articles
>>>
>>> This seems a bit excessive.
>>>    
>>>
>>>       
>> Well, it depends how that elimination is being done - by adding
>> references is quite OK, for instance.  By nominating for deletion
>> things that no references can be found for after an exhausting search
>> is also OK in my book.
>>
>>     
> Experience shows that the "exhausting search" is not always there.  
> Sometimes there is no search before nomination; perhaps a nomination 
> should show evidence that some searchging has happened.
>
> Ec
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Or we could go the other way, and say that an -article- should show some
evidence that searching has happened.

WP:V:

"The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material."


You write an article, it is -your job- to source it, not someone else's.
If you're just hacking at it from memory...well what are you writing it
for in the first place, find sources first!

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