David Gerard wrote:
On 29/11/06, Daniel P. B. Smith
<wikipedia2006(a)dpbsmith.com> wrote:
d) So, the unreferenced material should be
tagged. That calls the
reader's attention to the fact that the material is untraceable, and
its accuracy is hard to judge. Equally important, it also calls
everyone's attention to the fact that verifiability is policy, and
that it is taken seriously.
{{unreferenced}} isn't a horribly ugly tag, and it does serve the
reader without gutting the article.
God yes. I remember when I worked on the Tintin article, I had a whole
paragraph which was all sourced from the one source, so I cited that
source at the end of the paragraph, and someone came along and stuck a
cite template halfway in the middle of the paragraph. I think the best
thing is to use the unreferenced tag and copy the sentences that one is
questioning to the talk page, where someone can dig a source out and
work out the best way to cite it. I'm finding I'm writing some awful
articles in the sense of referencing tags at the minute. I rescued
Kieth Chapman from csd recently, and find I reference the same source 6
times in the one article. It just feels like overkill, but I can't
really work out how to best cite.
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