[Foundation-l] Enforcing WP:CITE

David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Wed Nov 30 08:37:42 UTC 2005


Brian wrote:

> I don't think it would be too hard to enforce. To start, a bot can look
> for any external links in the article, or for use of one of the common
> reference templates. Either that, or search for a section called
> "References", "Sources" or "External links". To enforce image tagging,
> we have appropriate image templates which are flagged/ignored by a bot.
> We need only do the same thing with article templates.


OK, a semi-automatic bot-assisted {{unreferenced}}-tagging. That'll find
them. We can then run "find the sources" drives. Sound workable?


- d.





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