Oh indeed. Wikipedia itself is tagged with a giant {{fact}} tag ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer). And the finish product is "featured articles" and even then those typically have room for improvement. People should not treat wikipedia like a inished product. It isn't and it will never ever be complete as human knowledge grows over time.
On Feb 2, 2008 5:21 AM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
On Feb 1, 2008 4:47 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/02/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
That was the original idea, I agree, but we've moved on from that.
Not remotely. Vast majority of our information is uncited.
And that's a bag thing.
I assume you meant "bad"
In my opinion, yes - it would be nice to have a cite for everything.
It's also a horrible mistake to, for example, run through WP articles and either delete everything that isn't cited, or all articles without RS, or both.
Indeed.
It's important to remember that {{fact}} means "This fact is uncited, so you, the reader, might want to take it with more grains of salt than usual." It most certainly does *NOT* mean, "this uncited fact will be deleted forthwith if you, the POV editor who inserted it, do not supply a citation (to my satisfaction) pronto."
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