[Foundation-l] Enforcing WP:CITE

[Brian]

David Gerard wrote:

>Brian wrote:
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>>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.
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>OK, a semi-automatic bot-assisted {{unreferenced}}-tagging. That'll find
>them. We can then run "find the sources" drives. Sound workable?
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I like the idea very much. It will encourage people to not only provide 
citations for unsourced articles, but make it a general part of everyday 
activity.