On 12/13/05, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
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Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Already 1000 listed there. I wonder, are there any articles that
*don't* qualify? [[Westboro Baptist Church]] has the tag, and it has 33 references!
BTW, the "Buckinghamshire location article" and "article related to broadcasting in Singapore" quotes were real examples from cleanup tags. So yeah, it was sarcasm, but it was serious sarcasm.
Anthony
If 1000 are listed there, then that will give you an idea of the magnitude of the problem. If you find the tag somewhere it doesn't belong, remove it. I'm not even sure what we are discussing here.
Ryan
I'm aware of the magnitude of the problem. That's why I'm presenting a proposal of how to start fixing it. Yes, there are lots of articles without any source already in Wikipedia. Let's stop adding new ones.
As for whether or not the tag belongs, I don't know if it belongs, because the way the tag is phrased it is fairly meaningless. "This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable." I'm sure [[Westboro Baptist Church]] does contain some such information. In fact, I bet at least 95% of the articles in the encyclopedia do, if not more. However, the tag doesn't say which information is not verified, so I can't even tell whether or not the tag is correct, let alone know how to resolve the problem.
Anthony