On 10/17/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
jayjg wrote:
On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@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 ...
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.
No, that doesn't follow from what I say. Wikipedia doesn't use itself as a reference, as you have no idea what might be in that [[Thomas Jefferson]] article when any individual happens to click on it.
Jay.