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Occupation: Teacher

Currently: Grading essays

To do: 
Article on Robert Lockier (done), William Leete (nvm).

Find a way to indicate the date range of uncertain plays (that is, nearly all plays). There is already some controversy on this point as regards Shakespeare, but the encyclopedia's credibility seems to me to require not making premature or narrow judgments about the dates of plays--or at least it requires making premature or narrow judgments consistently. This is more than a one-person job however.


Thoughts

  • Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...

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Venting

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  • The discussion for removing the "Unreferenced" template just closed with a strong keep. Consensus was that keeping the tag is a "no-brainer", that removing or revising it would be "daft." My own comment was not addressed. Oh well, time to move on with real work. But a comment while I'm still pissed. As near as I can tell, the process works something like this. Someone inserts material. Right, wrong, or muddled, it isn't sourced. Someone else comes along, is too lazy or busy to correct the material, and decides to slap an "unreferenced" on the whole thing. Then a third person comes along and attempts to deal with the unreferenced tag.
  • The third person's job is the hardest. It's easy to write without sources, and it's even easier to type bracket bracket unreferenced bracket bracket. It's hard to find sources in any case, harder when it's not clear what someone else wants sourced.
  • I suppose that is why the number of "Unreferenced" pages keeps growing and growing and growing. The 1st person is off adding unsourced material elsewhere on the site; the 2nd person is probably on WP somewhere voting or quarreling with other editors.

But what can be done? Complaining just adds to the main problem with this site: too many template-slappers and not enough fixers.

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Comments

Hey, I just wanted to say nice job on the "Beast (comics)" article. Great job making it present tense. That one was a tough one. Nice.

Bhissong 00:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)bhissong