[WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:56 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7914828.stm
>
> It's an article on how wonderful it is that political movements are
> better documented in their formative stages these days ... but all I
> could think was what a pain it can be researching anything that
> happened before 1995.
>
> After the low-hanging fruit come those of us with books.
>
> (I've been *really annoyed* lately when a fact in an article has a
> reference ... but it's been tagged {{fact}} because it doesn't have an
> *online* reference. Suggestion: searching for all articles with
> "</ref>{{fact" in them and sending 50,000 volts through the chair of
> anyone who tagged a reference on mere paper.

<me wonders how many people edit Wikipedia without sitting on a chair>

Carcharoth