[WikiEN-l] Verifiability

Thu Dec 15 20:53:07 UTC 2005

Fred Bauder wrote:

> A better approach is for all of us in our regular editing start  
> gradually asking more often for a reference and do more deleting when  
> it is not provided.
>
> When I do serious editing I am usually working from a book or  
> newspaper article and I have the reference at hand. It would often be  
> very hard for someone else to find that passage just going from  
> whatever I put into a Wikipedia article. So it is easy to put in  
> exact references.
>
> That does not end the matter, but it is a start. 

In other words, a good first step is for the experienced editors to be 
an example.

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