On 3/4/09, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(I've been *really annoyed* lately when a fact in an article has a reference ... but it's been tagged {{fact}} because it doesn't have an *online* reference. Suggestion: searching for all articles with "</ref>{{fact" in them and sending 50,000 volts through the chair of anyone who tagged a reference on mere paper.
I've seen that in editing disputes - where one side insists that the other side's reference isn't actually verifiable because it's not online so they can't verify it. Feel like pointing out we did actually use to be able to check things out before the internet happened you know. However I suspect most of these are fairly tendentious, along the lines of people who tag articles as unreferenced because they don't have inline references but do have a list of books from which all the facts in the article were taken.