Rob Church wrote:
On 21/08/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
I'd ask if anyone has any statistics on how often those tags are affixed and removed, but...
Wikipedians prefer to highlight and tag problems than to take 30 seconds to fix them, it seems. I can understand that larger cases crop up, and warrant attention from more than one person, but stupid little unsourced stubs don't need to be tagged - either find a source on the web, or find reference that a source might exist within five minutes, or "prod" it, or whatever we do now.
People on Wikipedia do what they want if it's allowed. They will NOT do something else, especially not something that is more work, if something they want to do is discouraged or even forbidden; they'll just not do it at all.
Therefore, discouraging work that actually helps the encyclopedia is a very bad idea indeed.
Timwi