Ray Saintonge wrote:
Indiscriminate unreferenced tags could be a problem anywhere, not just in scientific articles. The primary obligation for someone challenging a statement should be to put a polite question on the contributor's talk page and give him at least a week to respond. Doing that would be prima facie evidence that you have assumed good faith. If the wrong facts have been there for a year another week won't make a big difference.
It's not for indiscriminate use - it's for *nothing resembling a reference of any sort*. You'll see a pile of these articles if you middle-click "Random page" twenty times - four- to six-paragraph things which look like okay articles, but have nothing resembling a source, reference or even external link. That's what it's for. The debate on WP:TFD made it *very* clear its use was to be for unambiguous cases. And not for stubs either.
- d.