[WikiEN-l] Unreliable sources, or no sources at all?

[Andrew Gray]

On 23/03/2008, bobolozo <bobolozo at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  An extreme example of this, but... suppose some
>  spammer goes through and adds references to 1000
>  articles in random unsourced paragraphs, with the
>  source given being
>  mortgage-refinance-online-low-prices.biz, totally off
>  topic from any of the articles.  We're now not allowed
>  to remove this spam without gutting all of these
>  articles or spending hundreds of hours digging up sources?

No, of course you're allowed to remove that. This is a strawman -
there is a very major distinction between maliciously-added spam links
and good-faith but-not-very-good actual sources.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk