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

[Delirium]

bobolozo 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?
>   

These I do generally remove. A more realistic example: some spammer 
operating a travel site goes through and adds their unreliable ad-filled 
travel-to-some-island.biz site as a "source" for the article on 
some-island. I usually remove these as spam, as the "source" is worse 
than not having any, and is in any case spam. Occasionally if it seems 
like it actually was the source of the information, I'll leave it 
commented out as a note to future editors.

-Mark