[WikiEN-l] Inconvenience

[Ray Saintonge]

wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com wrote:

>>From: "John Lee" <johnleemk at gmail.com>
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>>Perhaps other people work
>>at things differently, but I rarely directly refer to sources when starting
>>an article unless I know little about it. The only exception is when I have
>>sources and am not sure what articles could use them, in which case I hunt
>>through the book/whatever for things I could write about. Otherwise, when I
>>want to write about something in general (especially when it's on impulse,
>>normally after "what? this is a redlink?"), it's often inefficient and
>>frustrating to hunt down a source.
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>Why is it any more "convenient" to do this in the main article space than in your own user space?  
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>>Call me an eventualist, 
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>I don't call this eventualism.
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>I call this rehearsing in front of the audience.
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>I call this running out into the street naked and telling the policeman "But I was just about to put my clothes on."
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I call this a non-sequitur.

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