[WikiEN-l] Citationgate: expertise and verifiability

Sat Sep 30 04:06:58 UTC 2006

Robth wrote:
> What citations do is massively simplify the process of verifying any
> given statement.  If a statement is not specifically cited, it could,
> for all the reader knows, come from anywhere in any of the books used
> as references, which, on most articles, would be a large amount of
> material to go through looking for confirmation of one specific
> statement.

In the case in question, though, only a handful of short articles were 
cited, so this isn't an issue.

-Mark