[Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

Thu Nov 3 09:48:10 UTC 2011

2011/11/3 David Richfield <davidrichfield at gmail.com>:

>> This should be kept in mind (particularly for bot design) when many new
>> articles such as biographies are *incorrectly* tagged for speedy deletion
>> or as unsourced when sources are present in the article, they just do not
>> use the citation template or ref tag.

> Does this seriously happen?  The only tag that is appropriate to this
> situation is refimprove or cleanup or maybe wikify.

Yes, helped by tools that encourage dealing with new users to be
treated like a first-person shooter.

- d.