On 29/09/06, Mak <makwik(a)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.