On 4/30/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/30/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I would hope that someone adding {{fact}} tags will look at a citation at the end of the paragraph and see if it includes the information they are concerned about. If they don't, then it isn't hard to remove the fact tag.
That's harder than it sounds - God forbid someone actually read a citation before mindlessly slapping a tag on it! In all seriousness, a lot of citations are for offline material, which makes it difficult to immediately verify that the citations contain the material in question.
I find it really annoying when people tag paragraphs which have already been cited, but often there's no other way to distinguish what is verified content and what is not. I do try to apply the cluestick when people don't bother following up on online citations, however.
Johnleemk
One clue that points to unverified content in verified paragraphs is text that was added later than the original citation. Stuff added by the person who added the original citation is usually covered.
Mgm