On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:12 PM, jayjg wrote:
People keep claiming that it's hard to source
"obvious facts";
however, in practice that's almost never the case. Obvious facts are
generally extremely easy to source.
A better and more important issue is that it's a waste of time to
source obvious facts.
Not really. Once they're sourced, they're sourced forever ...
I'm glad to see you say that.
Jefferson had an 8-year presidency during which a lot of things
happened. An article about any one of those things can quite easily
have a reference to "third president Thomas Jefferson" It follows from
what you say that a source will not be needed in any of those articles,
but a link to [[Thoma Jefferson]] will be sufficient.
Ec