[Foundation-l] Enforcing WP:CITE

Wed Nov 30 06:19:46 UTC 2005

On 11/30/05, Brian <brian0918 at gmail.com> wrote:
> In light of the recent USA Today article:
>
> In the same way that we are currently enforcing proper image tags using
> a bot, could we do the same with unsourced articles? Start out by
> placing {{unsourced}} in all the articles lacking sources, and then, if
> it is not sourced in a week, create something like the {{copvio}}
> page-replacer to hide the unsourced content (the entire article),
> explaining with a detailed message that the article must be thoroughly
> sourced.
>
> In my mind, at least, it doesn't seem like there should be any
> difference between enforcing sources for images and sources for
> articles. If anything we should be enforcing the latter more, since
> articles form the basis of the encyclopedia. I know this won't solve
> everything, but I think it should be a vital part of Wikipedia; since we
> do not know who edits an article, we need to know that it is based on
> information that we can verify ourselves.

It's an interesting idea, but it would apply to so many articles on
such a coarse grained way it may wind up being ignored. Perhaps such a
function could be tied to the TOC, so that each section would have a
flag of whether it had been sourced to satisfaction.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)

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