[Foundation-l] Wikipedia ... but where are you going ... (was:Enforcing WP:CITE ...)

Wed Dec 7 01:04:00 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>And such a requirement would not prevent anybody from adding unsourced material. It would just
>allow people who like to tag things - and boy does at least the English Wikipedia have plenty of
>those folks - to tag those articles as needing sources. The tag would serve two roles:
>1) Tell readers to treat the article very critically,
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>
Why does this need a tag?  Cannot a read see for themselves whether or 
not an article has references?  Or are we assuming our readers are 
idiots who accept everything uncritically unless explicitly told not to?

-Mark