[WikiEN-l] {{unreferenced}} tag?

[John Lee]

David Gerard wrote:

>I've been looking at and thinking about the quality project page on de:.
>(I would link to it but I've lost the URL! Anyone got it to hand?) A lot of
>what they do is simply tagging deficient articles. As well as tags
>corresponding to en:'s {{cleanup}}, {{stub}}, etc. (article-space tags
>intended to provoke work to allow their removal), they have ones that speak
>only of a particular national POV (German, Swiss or Austrian, with a flag
>on and a request to add detail for other places).
>
>One that occurred to me was an {{unreferenced}} tag, for an article that
>does not have any sources, references or external links listed. I've just
>created [[Template:Unreferenced]], with the following content:
>
>:''This article does not include its [[Wikipedia:Cite sources|references or
>sources]]. Please add references or [[Wikipedia:External links|external
>links]].''
>
>I'm picturing this going at the bottom of an article, where you would
>expect to see sources or references.
>
>Before I go wild adding this, what do others think of the idea?
>
>
>- d.
>  
>
I would suggest clarifying that external links and sources are different.

John Lee
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