Wikipedia talk:Articles on sources

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Why articles?

I do agree that having sources used in articles evaluated for reliability and having results stored on a page would be beneficial. However, if it is intended mainly for internal use by Wikipedians, I see no reason why it would not be better suited for project space (user space?) rather than article space, where it would be constrained by principles of WP:No original research and WP:Avoid self-references, and where it would not be permitted to link to in-Wikipedia discussions.

In fact, I came up with an idea like that long before you: I called a prototype implementation KITE (here is an example entry). Created November 2013, though I had a faint glimpse of the idea back in August 2012. Though I never really took it anywhere, because there are so many other things to do...

Writing a two-paragraph essay accomplishes very little. It will just linger here and gather dust. You would have to put some actual work into this to make it happen. — Keφr 20:26, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]