[WikiEN-l] A new and ugly trend

[Cheney Shill]

--- The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:

> > naïve. I use the 'who' tag often, as in:
> >
> >  Some groups[*attribution needed
>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words>*]
> oppose these measures.
> >
> > It seems to me that one could simplify this tag to
> "who?", as in:
> >
> >  Some groups[who?]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Attribution>
> oppose these measures.
> >
> >
> Can we PLEASE make a blanket ban on editorial footnotes
> in the middle of sentences?

Seems like a minor stylistic preference.  Some have
determined that a blanket ban on any unsourced statements
with weasel words, such as the following, will have far
greater impact:
* "Some groups"
* "Some people"
* "Some say"
* "Some found"
* "Some claim"
* "should"

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