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

[Ray Saintonge]

jayjg wrote:

>On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:12 PM, jayjg wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>A better and more important issue is that it's a waste of time to
>>source obvious facts.
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>Not really. Once they're sourced, they're sourced forever ...
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I'm glad to see you say that.

Jefferson had an 8-year presidency during which a lot of things
happened.  An article about any one of those things can quite easily
have a reference to "third president Thomas Jefferson"  It follows from
what you say that a source will not be needed in any of those articles,
but a link to [[Thoma Jefferson]] will be sufficient.

Ec