User talk:Rlugg1

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Marek.69 ^talk 15:05, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

October 2013

Hello, I'm Technopat. I noticed that you made a change to an article, ETA, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Technopat (talk) 09:45, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your note. I don't doubt for a moment that the article in question needs updating, and I fully understand your lack of time, but that does not justify adding content without sources. Especially when dealing with an article related to a contraversial issue. As well as the rationale above, as Jimmy Wales put it (my bold text):

There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative "I heard it somewhere" pseudo information is to be tagged with a "needs a cite" tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons.Wales, Jimmy. "Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information", 16 May 2006

And paraphrasing an admin:

"An article may or may not include a bibliography or external links, but references are not open to discussion, for a very simple reason: you contribute what you know of a subject, and tomorrow some wise guy comes along and changes it all, introducing falsehoods into the text."

Once again, Jimmy Wales hits it on the head:

"I really want to encourage a much stronger culture which says: it is better to have no information, than to have information like this, with no sources. Any editor who removes such things, and refuses to allow it back without an actual and appropriate source, should be the recipient of a barnstar."Wales, Jimmy. "Insist on sources", 19 July 2006

Regards, --Technopat (talk) 15:01, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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