[WikiEN-l] {{unreferenced}} tag?

Fri Jan 28 11:19:05 UTC 2005

slimvirgin at gmail.com (slimvirgin at gmail.com) [050128 22:14]:

> David, I see no reason not to put {{Cite Sources}} on the article
> itself. There's no point in putting it on the Talk page because it's
> not the Talk page that needs the references. ;-)  Like the neutrality
> tag, it's a warning to the reader, in this case that the article has
> not been properly sourced. I think either that one or your
> {{unreferenced}} tag would be a good thing to use on some articles.
> Yes, I can think of quite a few. ;-)

I'm thinking particularly of the sort of thing you see a lot of on hitting
"Random page" - four paragraphs which are probably true but don't contain
any clues as to where they came from, apart from off the top of the
writer's head.

- d.