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

[Michael Snow]

David Gerard wrote:

>Excellent point. Though a stub with {{unrefenced}} *and* {{stub}} looks a
>little overwhemled and may not have the desired effect, i.e. suggesting
>someone fix it.
>  
>
Quite so, and in fact one of the big problems with the proliferation of 
tags is their indiscriminate use. I have seen plenty of substubs (a 
category I despise, and think should all be organized into the much 
better stub categories organized by their content) where you could 
barely see the content for all of the tags that had been placed on it - 
{{substub}}, {{expansion}}, {{cleanup}}, and {{attention}} all at once. 
And then dispute tags are simply used as bargaining chips in edit wars.

There are some people who don't seem terribly inclined to do the real 
research necessary to actually contribute to the encyclopedia, so they 
just go around slapping tags on whatever articles they run across. I 
would much rather they spent their time adding appropriate categories 
instead, which is something else that can be done with relatively little 
prior knowledge about a subject. The category system still needs serious 
organization and improvement, and would bring more real benefit to the 
encyclopedia than happy-go-lucky tag-slapping.

--Michael Snow