On 4/29/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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=6…
is my favorite.