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How important reference is?

~~I am human not robot. I forget everything (I am dumb) but, human. It's OK to forget everything.~~
Usually, **a person said in one of my comment that most of the time I don't add reference link**. But, I always mention if I take anything from somewhere else. Like, a wise person said ...... I forgot his name, so how can I mention his name. Even, if that wise person not popular than, I can't find him in the Internet easily. That's why I always can't give resource/reference. Like, if you have read a documentation 10 years ago. Can you add that link now while writing something about that documentation? It will become very hard to find. Even, after searching that 1 day or, more than a day you may not find that link again also.
In Codidact Meta I had earlier wrote some questions and answers and, I mentioned that `@ArtOfCode` (just as sample) said .... If he didn't say that than, he would mention in comment. But, they never did (Note: I had mentioned wrong name once. Later I had edited maybe I forgot it also). But, a person said that I always say something without reference as I mentioned earlier.
I had noticed in SE that, some people added lot of links and saying that,"I took information from [here](https://.....)". But, now that website is banned or, domain has expired. So, is the reference important? From my mind, I will say that `Yes`.
But, what if I lost that link. What if I can't find that anymore? If you think,"it's very important and, if I lost that information than, I shouldn't talk about that". Then, I will move back. I will stop.

I am a human not a robot. I forget everything (I am dumb) but, human. It's OK to forget everything.
Usually, **a person in one of my comment said that most of the time I don't add a reference link**. But I always mention if I take anything from somewhere else. Like, a wise person said ...... I forgot his name, so how can I mention his name. Even, if that wise person not popular, then I can't find him in the Internet easily. That's why I always can't give resource/reference. Like, if you had read a documentation 10 years ago. Can you add that link now while writing something about that documentation? It will become very hard to find. Even, after searching for that 1 day or more than a day you may not find that link again also.
In Codidact Meta, I had earlier wrote some questions and answers and I mentioned that `@ArtOfCode` (just as sample) said .... If he didn't say that, then he would mention in a comment. But, they never did (note: I had mentioned wrong name once. Later, I had edited maybe I forgot it also). But, a person said that I always say something without reference as I mentioned earlier.
I had noticed that in Stack Exchange, some people added a lot of links and saying that, "I took information from [here](https://.....)". But, now that website is banned or the domain has expired. So, is the reference important? From my mind, I will say that `Yes`.
But, what if I lost that link? What if I can't find that anymore? If you think, "it's very important and if I lost that information, then I shouldn't talk about that". Then, I will move back. I will stop.

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