User:Kncyu38

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Welcome. As you may notice from my contribs, my main interest on Wikipedia lies with the references (or a lack thereof) given in articles. While there is an abundance of thoroughly referenced articles, there are surprisingly many articles (and not nearly all of them are stubs) completely lacking in reliable sources. You may call me pedantic, but I'm one of those conservative guys who does not regard some online interview or biased fan page as a reliable source, and I regard giving such "sources" as references for an article as even worse than naming no sources at all. Paying a visit to Cheating in counterstrike may give you an idea of what I consider to be particularly bad referencing.

In addition, I believe tagging an article as unreferenced is an effective way of providing users interested in improving the article with an incentive to do so. That's why I like to place the tag on top of the page, so as to productively annoy the people who feel responsible for the article just as much as a lack of reliable sources annoys me, as a reader.

In case the pattern of articles I'm tagging don't make immediate sense to anybody, here's why: I'm tagging articles wherever it seems appropriate as I'm reading along wikipedia (which remains my primary relation to the encyclopedia). And I may follow links to related pages, as I often do when I read wikipedia and maybe tag those, too. I.e., if a pattern emerges out of my contributions, it's probably going to be determined by two variables: 1) My reading habits and 2) the tendency of some groups of articles to be better referenced than others.