On 4/30/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
There has always been conflict between our need to warn the reader that what they are reading can't be trusted, and our desire for an ultimately clean and professional presentation. Over time, Wikipedia has moved in the former direction, towards bolder and more visible warnings, which is not something I would have predicted back in 2003.
My observation is the opposite. Our unreferenced tags are drifting towards the bottom of the article, rather than the top. Many other tags are migrating towards the talk page rather than the article itself. Our "expand this article" tags are disappearing altogether.
I do wish we more use of explicit "disputed" tags instead of the rather passive-aggressive "citation needed" tag, though.
Steve