On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner(a)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