jayjg wrote:
On 10/17/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
jayjg wrote:
On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
A better and more important issue is that it's a waste of time to source obvious facts.
Not really. Once they're sourced, they're sourced forever ...
I'm glad to see you say that.
Jefferson had an 8-year presidency during which a lot of things happened. An article about any one of those things can quite easily have a reference to "third president Thomas Jefferson" It follows from what you say that a source will not be needed in any of those articles, but a link to [[Thoma Jefferson]] will be sufficient.
No, that doesn't follow from what I say. Wikipedia doesn't use itself as a reference, as you have no idea what might be in that [[Thomas Jefferson]] article when any individual happens to click on it.
Your POV makes no sense at all. You might as well say that there's no point to making links because you don't trust the work of others. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a reference to another article.
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