[WikiEN-l] Templates for the masses
Magnus Manske
magnusmanske at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 8 13:51:00 UTC 2007
On 10/8/07, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I seem to keep repeating myself over and over again, but instead of tagging
> a dozen pages, why not fix half a dozen pages. I remind our newer users that
> references can be really, really quickly created with
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/makeref.php and I heartily recommend this
> for anybody who would like to help with referencing but can't. I blitzed
> British Airways a couple of weeks ago and was able to remove all but one of
> the citation needs tags with five or ten minutes, only one point took little
> longer to reference. So, don't tag when you can reference, wikify or
> dePOV-ify something yourself within the amount of time you have available.
FWIW, I just used my own tool and Google Scholar to fix /all/ (17, I
think) [citation needed] on [[DNA sequencing]]. Granted, I work in
that area, but scientific expertise was not really needed to do it.
Cheers,
Magnus
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