[WikiEN-l] good example of overuse of {{fact}}

[ScottL]

jayjg wrote:
> On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:12 PM, jayjg wrote:
>>
>>> People keep claiming that it's hard to source "obvious facts";
>>> however, in practice that's almost never the case. Obvious facts are
>>> generally extremely easy to source.
>> A better and more important issue is that it's a waste of time to
>> source obvious facts.
> 
> Not really. Once they're sourced, they're sourced forever, and
> inserting spurious fact templates gets more difficult. And every once
> in a while, you discover that what you thought was an "obvious fact"
> was slightly different from what you imagined, or more complex than at
> first glance, or even completely untrue.
> 
> Jay.

   However, having between 1 and 3 notes per sentence in an article is 
probably not good for readability and decreases the usefulness of the 
notes on the whole.

SKL