On 21/08/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com>
wrote:
I'd ask if anyone has any statistics on how
often those tags are
affixed and removed, but...
Wikipedians prefer to highlight and tag problems than to take 30
seconds to fix them, it seems. I can understand that larger cases crop
up, and warrant attention from more than one person, but stupid little
unsourced stubs don't need to be tagged - either find a source on the
web, or find reference that a source might exist within five minutes,
or "prod" it, or whatever we do now.
People on Wikipedia do what they want if it's allowed. They will NOT do
something else, especially not something that is more work, if something
they want to do is discouraged or even forbidden; they'll just not do it
at all.
Therefore, discouraging work that actually helps the encyclopedia is a
very bad idea indeed.
Timwi