jayjg wrote:
On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:12 PM, jayjg wrote:
People keep claiming that it's hard to source "obvious facts"; however, in practice that's almost never the case. Obvious facts are generally extremely easy to source.
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, and inserting spurious fact templates gets more difficult. And every once in a while, you discover that what you thought was an "obvious fact" was slightly different from what you imagined, or more complex than at first glance, or even completely untrue.
Jay.
However, having between 1 and 3 notes per sentence in an article is probably not good for readability and decreases the usefulness of the notes on the whole.
SKL