On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@armory.com wrote:
"The responsibility for justifying inclusion of any content rests firmly with the editor seeking to include it.--Hu12 (talk) 01:06, 11 March 2008 (UTC)"
Thoughts?
Kurt Weber kmw@armory.com
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Absolutely dead-on. If you didn't bother to find your sources, and someone else challenges your material, they can and should remove it if you fail to back it up. Sourcing is a -requirement- once a challenge is made (and presumably we are talking about a scenario in which some form of challenge is made, given that if no challenge is ever made, no justification is ever needed from anyone.) To preempt that, it is best to find sources BEFORE adding material (why would you be adding material without finding it in a reliable source anyway, and why not cite it if you have it?), but if one's material that -was- added without sourcing is challenged, one is responsible to either provide such sources or not obstruct removal until and unless sourcing can be found.