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chorsestudios • today at 12:04 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Why is a citation necessary rather than simply wording the statement to more accurately reflect the situation?

Bread is sold both sliced and unsliced, sometimes geographic location impacts which variation is predominant.


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pcthrowaway • today at 12:13 AM

> rather than simply wording the statement to more accurately reflect the situation?

I'm arguing that this should be done, and yet a citation is still important. You didn't answer my question about milk. In what situation would it be appropriate to mention milk being sold frozen without a citation? For example, human milk banks actually do freeze the milk for transport, but if this is mentioned in a wikipedia article, it should be cited! Same goes for making a claim about whether bread is sold sliced or unsliced (even if both are encountered more commonly than frozen milk)