On 4/30/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But if you only have one cite in a paragraph
someone will slap a
[citation needed] on individual facts within the paragraph. There's
no way in Wikipedia to differentiate between "This cite covers the
entire paragraph" from "This cite covers this sentence" without
leaving a comment in the code.
I would hope that someone adding {{fact}} tags will look at a citation
at the end of the paragraph and see if it includes the information
they are concerned about. If they don't, then it isn't hard to remove
the fact tag.
That's harder than it sounds - God forbid someone actually read a citation
before mindlessly slapping a tag on it! In all seriousness, a lot of
citations are for offline material, which makes it difficult to immediately
verify that the citations contain the material in question.
I find it really annoying when people tag paragraphs which have already been
cited, but often there's no other way to distinguish what is verified
content and what is not. I do try to apply the cluestick when people don't
bother following up on online citations, however.
Johnleemk