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

Wed Dec 14 00:21:57 UTC 2005

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

> I find the unreferenced tag to be useless.  Either it says that the
> article contains some unreferenced facts, in which case we'd be better
> off tagging those few articles which don't contain unreferenced facts
> with the opposite tag,

Then it shouldn't be used to tag the article. That's not what it's for.

> or it says that the article contains zero
> references, which is already evident to anyone scanning the article
> anyway.

The tag puts the article in the category. It also looks like a big ugly
box telling the editor "PLEASE DO BETTER KTHX."

> If you want to put the tag on the talk page or use a category, in the
> case of articles with absolutely no references, I wouldn't object. 
> But I don't think that is a solution for what I'm saying, which is
> that we shouldn't be creating such articles in the first place.

I suggest that we can only lead by example and peer pressure, and the
template does IMO help there.

- d.