Few newcomers know about the verifiability policy. Of those that do, how
many know where to find references, and how to format them?
2007/8/10, Majorly <axel9891(a)googlemail.com>om>:
On 10/08/07, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The main point here is that a person who is
putting some information
inside of article -- should put reference, too. Amount of unverified
statements on Wikipedia is enormous (however, I don't say that the
situation is better in Britannica, for example) and *there are*
contributors who are primary checking unverified statements.
I completely support {{fact}} tagging (instead of {{sources-section}}
and similar tags) because {{fact}} tells to other contributors what do
they need to find.
However, if someone is working on some article, such person should
find sources instead of putting {{fact}} there.
This is often stuff from a long time ago, when things like verifiablity
were
probably not as well enforced as today. People would probably copy stuff
from other places, or what they personally knew (original research) but
not
give a source (or, they didn't research properly and simply cited another
Wikipedia article which was done in the same way.) For an article like
Italy, I personally think it is vital such source don't exist. It's one of
our "Vital articles" and an article that should be on every language
Wikipedia. It's a bad choice for an article to have such bad sourcing.
--
Alex (Majorly)
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