[Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[David Richfield]

> there is no requirement or policy for ref tags to be used in an article. If
> a new user wishes to stick sources as plain text at the bottom of an
> article, this is not actually a failure against the manual of style or our
> verification policy.

This may be true, but it is a policy that an individual article's
style should be consistent.

> This should be kept in mind (particularly for bot design) when many new
> articles such as biographies are *incorrectly* tagged for speedy deletion
> or as unsourced when sources are present in the article, they just do not
> use the citation template or ref tag.

Does this seriously happen?  The only tag that is appropriate to this
situation is refimprove or cleanup or maybe wikify.

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David Richfield
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