"Gregory Maxwell" wrote
It's sometimes hard to convince someone that
we're not trying to be
mean when we tell them they must cite sources because when the look
around Wikipedia they find homogeneous swaths of it uncited or poorly
cited.
We have parallel problems with copyright violations and other areas
where the active community has thoroughly agreed that Wikipedia should
do X while most of Wikipedia still does Y.
Not a great comparison. Copyvio strikes at the legal viability of the whole project.
Referencing - well, read Kenneth Clark's book on Gothic Architecture where he talks
about writing as if the Ph.D. examiners were looking over his shoulder. We are not good in
getting this in proportion.
Charles
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