Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-18014300-20170717032044/@comment-18014300-20170717182657

Master Sima Yi wrote: I have to agree with Jasca. This has never been an issue in the past and the War on Terror page is an extreme example. Almost all of the info on there is in conflict with our sourcing policty and I have therefore deleted it. Such an article is simply not in adherence to previous policies, or how we've always approached articles, and I don't see why that needs to change so we can fill articles with information that have no bearing to AC. Keep introductions to a simple minimum, leaving as little room as possible for misinformation and misinterpretation. As I explained in my last response on your talk page, in my perspective, this is an issue even when it doesn't reach the extreme extent of "War on Terror".

Even if we have the birth date and place of birth of Alexander the Great in his article, and that is the only outside information, that is an issue if it's uncited. Where did we take this from? A school textbook? A library book? We shouldn't be taking from Wikipedia, but if we did, then we did, and it should be cited.