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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Apr 23 06:47:33 UTC 2007


Thomas Dalton wrote:

>>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.
>>    
>>
>If you looked for a reference and couldn't find one, I think it would
>have been better to remove the statement, rather than just tag it.
>
What he did seems right.  He was able to make a judgement based on the 
trends in the rest of the article.  I'm assuming that the unsourced 
statement was not particularly negative, so why not give others a chance 
to look.

Ec




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