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For all questions that are primarily about answers - both on mainsite and on Meta. (If a more relevant/appropriate tag exists, it may be used alongside or instead of this one.)
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Are the citation requirements for objective questions not applicable to systems like World o...
Some of the sourcebooks that provide (commonly accepted to be) canonical answers don't even have rules in them-- there are WoD novellas and comics. … For others, demanding citations in all answers will only make answers worse (or prevent answers from being posted in the first place). …
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Does a high score on an answer excuse the requirement to back up the answer?
I think that it's generally good to promote and apply best practices on the stack because they improve the stack: better questions, easier-to-find questions, clear answers, citations supporting those answers … tl;dr: We can and should enforce "back it up" standards for answers, and I believe that we are right to look poorly on "try this"- and "I imagine this to be true with no support"-type answers. …
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How are you meant to provide personal experience on mostly mathematical questions?
Both of these are answers that I, personally, would accept as sufficiently supported (for this very contrived example, at least). … These features tend to make answers better and also make it possible to judge between different answers. …
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