Michael Snow (wikipedia@earthlink.net) [050129 03:13]:
There are some people who don't seem terribly inclined to do the real research necessary to actually contribute to the encyclopedia, so they just go around slapping tags on whatever articles they run across. I would much rather they spent their time adding appropriate categories instead, which is something else that can be done with relatively little prior knowledge about a subject. The category system still needs serious organization and improvement, and would bring more real benefit to the encyclopedia than happy-go-lucky tag-slapping.
As I understood the (babelfished) de: quality page, what they did was a pile of tag-slapping, then going forth and trying to fix it. The first tells where to start on the second.
I can't see {{unreferenced}} becoming a bargaining chip in an edit war. (People who remove references are an entirely different problem.)
- d.