On 4/29/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I would say that is bad sourcing. It should be possible to find one source for all that information and just cite it at the end of the paragraph. Combining lots of sources like that ends up bordering on OR and can introduce bias.
But if you only have one cite in a paragraph someone will slap a [citation needed] on individual facts within the paragraph. There's no way in Wikipedia to differentiate between "This cite covers the entire paragraph" from "This cite covers this sentence" without leaving a comment in the code.
Of all the diffs I have seen, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ballbusting&diff=60117857&oldid=60074942">this</a> is my favorite.