Wikipedia:Bare URLs
What is right with bare URLs?: An encouragement utterly misplaced—erring in presuming that rapidly performed, incomplete work is nevertheless apt, and accurate, and reliable. To the contrary, there is a correlation between provision of incomplete sources, and provision of inaccurate sources, and inaccurate content extraction from sources. (If care and time are not taken to accurately present a source, why do we presume the care and time are taken to accurately present what it states?)
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==What is right with bare URLs?== |
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Adding a bare URL reference to Wikipedia is ''much'' more helpful than no reference. |
Adding a bare URL reference to Wikipedia is ''much'' more helpful than no reference.{{dubious discuss}} |
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If you only have the time and inclination to copy the reference URL you found, that is a helpful first step, and we thank you for your contribution! |
If you only have the time and inclination to copy the reference URL you found, that is a helpful first step, and we thank you for your contribution!{{dubious discuss}} |
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==What is wrong with bare URLs?== |
==What is wrong with bare URLs?== |
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