Sloppiness means that it'll take MUCH longer until it can be established with absolute certainty that an article/book exists and isn't the result of hallucinations by a certain program some ((redacted)) of the academic world choose to use.
Viola Tricolor
The growing sloppiness of bibliographies/sources in books comes at a really inconvenient moment: I couldn't locate a monography and I admitted defeat searching the page numbers of an article.
These standards aren't superfluous! They are part of the backbone of serious research. I could scream.
