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Policy and community behavior do not always match. Sometimes it is the behavior that needs changing, other times it is the policy that needs changing. While the two will always differ some, in the interests of new members to the community it is important to keep this disparity at a minimum.
In that spirit I am writing this essay to describe the disparity between the policies, and actual community behavior, related to removing uncited content.