Ray Saintonge wrote:
Indiscriminate unreferenced tags could be a
problem anywhere, not
just in scientific articles. The primary obligation for someone
challenging a statement should be to put a polite question on the
contributor's talk page and give him at least a week to respond.
Doing that would be prima facie evidence that you have assumed good
faith. If the wrong facts have been there for a year another week
won't make a big difference.
It's not for indiscriminate use - it's for *nothing resembling a
reference
of any sort*. You'll see a pile of these articles if you middle-click
"Random page" twenty times - four- to six-paragraph things which look
like
okay articles, but have nothing resembling a source, reference or even
external link. That's what it's for. The debate on WP:TFD made it *very*
clear its use was to be for unambiguous cases. And not for stubs either.
I don't dispute that at all. Still, givng people the first opportunity
to fix their own deficiencies is good for the social atmosphere.
Ec