User talk:Dreaded Walrus/Archives/May 2010

Wikipedia as a source
Hi. While I agree that we should not use ourselves as a source, it is in general better than no source at all. So replacing the reference with fact tags is rather unhelpfull. It's often a quick fix to these problems by going over to the page that we attempt to use as a reference and see what sources they use for the facts in question. If you are unwilling to do so could you please leave the unreliable reference in place and tag with Unreliable_source_inline instead of fact? Taemyr (talk) 15:26, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, yes. I agree with pretty much everything you say. I wasn't aware of Template:Verify credibility (I knew of the template, just not its location), or I would have done that. Normally, in fact, I would have followed to the articles in question and looked through for sources that back up the material like you suggest, but in this instance I was in a slight hurry, so I figured I would do what I did. Thank you for replacing the tags with the sources yourself, by the way. :) Dreaded Walrus t c 18:18, 13 May 2010 (UTC)