[WikiEN-l] A challange to those who say the system works

[James Farrar]

On 22/04/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/07, Pilotguy <pilotguy.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Really, instead of complaining about it, wouldn't it be better to >fix< it?
> > I mean, seriously.
>
> Of course - that's one of my issues with Wikipedia's tagging culture -
> that people will spend lots of time doing things like tagging but not
> even attempt to fix the problems they're identifying.

Of course, it's much quicker to tag something than to check it. I was
working on an article earlier that I added references for the bits I
could find and added a {{fact}} tag to one bit I couldn't verify,
although it seems right - the hope is that someone else comes across
it who can check it.