http://keithmm.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] keithmm.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2008-10-25 04:47 pm (UTC)

And that last one has the "no cites" tag but in fact cites a magazine article and a CBC documentary, with links to online forms of both.

When CBC reported that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans had released a report earlier this year concluding that oops, they'd actually sort of overlooked up to 30,000 whales and that Canadian bowhead populations were, in fact, very healthy, I was the one who included that info on the article on bowheads. Including a reference to the CBC news website with the story.

Guess what: "citation needed" last time I looked at it. I'm really of the opinion that people are doing that as a form of intellectual masturbation, because they have to be getting some pleasure out of it.

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