User:Tom harrison/BADCITES

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I can NOT emphasize this enough. 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.

–Jimmy Wales ^[1]

We have about fifty links to Harvard University's excellent Open Collections Program. Our articles need more links to those and similar high quality references.

We have almost 300 links to Stormfront, which describes itself as a "Racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival." We have over 350 links to the popular conspiracy theory website prisonplanet.com. Below are some often-used sources of questionable reliability. Many should be removed from articles on sight with very few exceptions. A good way to do that is periodically check for external links, and pull the ones you find. The others must be used carefully if at all. Remember to leave a useful edit summary.

See also this very useful Crosswiki spam linksearch.

If you're that kind of person, you can fool with this sed script to generate a worklist.

#!/bin/sed -f /^<li>/!d /title="Talk/d /title="User/d /title="Wikipedia/d s/<\/a><\/li>// s/<li>.\+linked from <a href="// s/\/wiki\//\/w\/index.php?title=/ s/" title="[^"]\+"// s/$http[^>]\+$>$.\+$$/<li><a href="\1\&action=edit\&externaledit=true">\2<\/a>, <a href="\1">article<\/a>, <a href="\1\&action=history">history<\/a><\/li>/ w worklist.html

Hardcopy

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

References

^ Jimmy Wales (2006-05-16). ""Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information"". WikiEN-l electronic mailing list archive. Retrieved 2006-06-11.

External links

Deconstructing Web Pages

[1] Jimmy Wales (2006-05-16). ""Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information"". WikiEN-l electronic mailing list archive. Retrieved 2006-06-11.

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