Issues about sourcing[]
I tagged the page for deletion since the page did not have a source. However, C7X repeated to remove the deletion tag because he added a source. However, the source he added was not the main source. The wiki policy requires that every article have a main source. Should we delete the page or not? Giggolstack (talk) 22:33, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for contribution. If you find a suspected description, we hope you to put "citation needed" or to ask others sources. If you find a disprovable description, please remove it and write a reason at the summary or the talk page. (Of course, we have counterexamples. If the suspected description is awfully doubtful, then it is good to rapidly remove it.)
- Well, what does "the main source" in your terminology mean? It is good to fix the meaning of the terminology before we start discussion.
- p-adic 01:14, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
- A "main source" is a source in the very first paragraph of the page. Giggolstack (talk) 01:18, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
- You meant that we need a source of the descriptions in the first paragraph of each article, right? Sure, it is better to have a source or a proof/explanation of each description in each paragraph. If we lack sources for suspected descriptions which are not so obviously incorrect, please put "citation needed" tag or ask the ones who added the information sources. If we first remove the information, then we will just lose an oppotunity to ask sources or proofs of the removed information.
- p-adic