[WikiEN-l] Next experiment: switch off AFD for a month. (was Guardian in defense of Wikipedia)

Tue Dec 13 17:44:19 UTC 2005

Stan Shebs wrote:

> Justin Cormack wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:41 +0800, John Lee wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I believe the {{unreferenced}} template already exists. I've seen it 
>>> quite a few times, but not often enough, IMO. I'm a fanatic on 
>>> citing sources, but some of the old ones I started that I don't 
>>> really have much interest in (like [[chicken nugget]] and 
>>> [[double-decker bus]]) don't have references yet (AFAIK).
>>>
>>
>> Well lets start putting it in more.
>>
>> Yes, things with little interest are an issue.
>>
>> I think I will have to make full list of articles I am interested
>> in being good that I have contributed to, and prune my watchlist of
>> the stuff that I just made small fixes to and dont really care
>> about in order to make this improvement thing work.
>>
>> I might however have a few erudite references for chicken nugget
>> in my large pile of history of food books.
>>
> I wonder how many people hold off adding references because they're
> hoping for a better source. For instance, I used to not mention
> using Oxford Classical Dictionary, because it's technically a
> tertiary source, but many of its articles mention only primary
> sources, leaving no secondaries to cite. Nowadays I just cite it
> anyway - if somebody has something better later, they can replace
> the OCD cite.
>
> Stan

I always cite any possible source - even tertiary ones. They're better 
than nothing at all, and when someone with a better source comes along, 
they can be replaced.

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])