Tom Haws wrote:
steven l. rubenstein wrote:
> Some people have suggested that if someone keeps
putting unsourced
> material on the page, the solution is to delete it. Well, this is the
> first solution to any problem at Wikipedia.
Heh-heh. It is easy to see how this problem got
started. Deleting
unsourced material is an excellent excuse for POV police, warriors, and
their ilk. But it doesn't go over too well in polite society.
In some cases I put an HTML comment around the paragraph in question,
with a note that it *really* needs a reference to go in - and often a
note on the talk page to go with it. Commenting is less obnoxious than
deletion.
Note also that deleting it may be seen as not going over too well in
polite society, as you say - but then, insisting that something completely
unsourced go in and refusing to provide a source probably isn't in Miss
Manners either.
- d.