I have some questions about the possibility of introducing a habit of sources only responses in certain circumstances.

For any given question I would prefer the solid answers that make me love this subreddit so much, but the problem is that so many questions go unanswered.

However I would bet that a fair portion of these questions are viewed by someone with at least periphery academic knowledge of the subject that lack just enough knowledge to give an answer. They might mostly know the answer, and know where to look, but aren't able or willing to spend a few hours brushing up and researching enough to feel comfortable giving a solid response. And this is fine, but what I would love to see is a trend of those users posting something along the lines of, "I can't give an answer up to askhistorians' standards, but I would bet you can find the answers here...{List of sources and authors and brief descriptions}."

Would a user simply posting "I can't answer but look here" be against the subreddit's rules? The rules seem to discourage just posting sources, (with the exception of questions looking for sources), but not explicitly disallow them, and imply that the main problem is sources with no context, not an inherent flaw with a sources only response.

Are there some potential problems with this I'm not seeing? (Bad sources too risky, etc).

If this is allowed is the general consensus of the mods and users that this would be a good trend?

If so, how would we encourage this habit?

Edit: Just to make certain, I am referring to this with the assumption that the author is putting in the proper context to their sources and how they will relate to the answer. These posts would still take a well thought out in depth approach, they just will not directly answer the question because the poster does not feel they can quite answer to standard. This poster would still be expected to have basic knowledge of the topic, and in depth knowledge of the field/sources that would be most relevant. Perhaps they learned about this several years ago and do not remember details, or have discussed the topic in depth before but do not feel they are an authority, although they are decently versed, etc.