On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
quiddity wrote:
What to do about someone who has "lost the
plot"?
For example, this editor seems to be going from article to article,
deleting every prose paragraph that doesn't have a ref tag (usually
everything except the intro sentence).
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=…
Some of the content being removed is obviously not good (selfpromoting
peacockery etc), but much is perfectly fine, and this seems to be one
of the worst (most indiscriminate) ways to handle the hypothetical
problem.
Suggest that one can drive-by even faster in adding {{fact}}? I think
this is the first step, the suggestion that identifying unsourced facts
is a way of achieving a similar end, and that we can all applaud it when
properly done.
Charles
And where does the {{fact}}-bombing end?
[[Medici bank]] is as finely referenced an article as I have ever (or
likely will ever) written with 96 footnotes, multiple books & papers
consulted, and extensive quoting - yet the overwhelming majority of
sentences lack <ref> tags and are presumably candidates for bombing.
--
gwern