David Gerard wrote:
On 29/11/06, Daniel P. B. Smith wikipedia2006@dpbsmith.com wrote:
d) So, the unreferenced material should be tagged. That calls the reader's attention to the fact that the material is untraceable, and its accuracy is hard to judge. Equally important, it also calls everyone's attention to the fact that verifiability is policy, and that it is taken seriously.
{{unreferenced}} isn't a horribly ugly tag, and it does serve the reader without gutting the article.
God yes. I remember when I worked on the Tintin article, I had a whole paragraph which was all sourced from the one source, so I cited that source at the end of the paragraph, and someone came along and stuck a cite template halfway in the middle of the paragraph. I think the best thing is to use the unreferenced tag and copy the sentences that one is questioning to the talk page, where someone can dig a source out and work out the best way to cite it. I'm finding I'm writing some awful articles in the sense of referencing tags at the minute. I rescued Kieth Chapman from csd recently, and find I reference the same source 6 times in the one article. It just feels like overkill, but I can't really work out how to best cite.