On 8/21/06, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
There's an easy solution; if there's a citation in the Babe Ruth article, then copy it into the other article. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is a Wiki, so you don't know, at any given time, whether or not the article on Babe Ruth will actually have that citation in it. Putting in the other article means you don't have to rely on the Babe Ruth article, and, if it ever somehow gets deleted, there's still a history that one can go back to to find and restore it.
Yes..
Personally I think our standard for providing citations should be 'if any sane participant in good faith thinks there should be a citation', then we should go ahead and provide it...
At the same time, lets be clear: If I see anyone going around {{fact}}ing multiple pages rather than fixing it themselves when (1) they believe the fact to be true, and (2) providing the citation is as easy as copying it from another page.... I will be one of the first to sign on the RFCs against them.