On 29/09/06, Mak makwik@gmail.com wrote:
But since practically no-one on-wiki is an expert on 16th century Italian music, they insist on inline citations, so that someone could potentially go "check" that "fact". I think inline citations can be very important, but I don't think every single factual assertion in an article should have to have an inline citation, especially when an article really is simply echoing accepted non-controversial scholarship, such as, for instance, [[Dido and Aeneas]], which just received a GA review request for inline citations. It's getting ridiculous.
This needs posting to WT:FAC. They get attacks of weird fashion in citation format that spread out through the wiki.
I mean, I see their point: verifiability. Ideally, there should be a secondary source that already says "was widely considered". But it can get stupid, yes.
- d.