I believe that citations should be much more automated by Wikipedia (probably via a central structured data store, e.g. Wikidata), and rather than do work that should be left to machines, I would rather focus on tasks (such as adding sources) that are likely to require human intervention for the foreseeable future;
I haven't yet encountered any automated citation tools for Wikipedia that I found adequately ergonomic and secure;
I find manually filling in the various citation templates (copy-pasting first name, last name, etc) unbearably unergonomic and tedious;
it plays to my strengths (improving Wikipedia by adding
not mandatory, it does not seem to be objectively selfish or unreasonable behaviour, on my part, to edit this way. Quite the contrary: this approach feels collaborative, as wikis are intended to be. It ends up being a triple win
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