1. it happens across wikipedia w/ controversial sources (ie- dubious enough to remove, as you [rightly] did), with sources following. That's why the tag has a date, to know if it has been uncited long enough and no one comes through. In my experience, it usually does, and if it doesn't by the end of the month (the date on the tag) then it can go. 
 ::Okay, well, let's disect it bit by bit over there and get consensus.