User talk:Regan123/Archives/2008/March

Citing sources on road articles
I have just come across the A28 road article, on which I believe you have asked for sources to be cited. I just wonder where such sources might be found? I have edited several such articles in circumstances where I know the road so well, and then use the OS map, to have enough knowledge that the result is correct. Of course there are instances where there are reports (eg media) of blackspots or general holdups - I think particularly of the A21! - but where the road is simply described from Alpha to Omega, I cannot see what more can be done. I should havw thought that an article such as I am tackling at the moment - Hastings - needs such a nomination better. The only place I can see on the A28 article is where it says "plans for a northern link" - perhaps a "fact" entry would have been more appropriate at that point? Peter Shearan (talk) 14:23, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Excessive use of "citation needed" template on Smallthorne article, etc?
Hello, since you have edited the Smallthorne article before, I wondered if you have an opinion on the tagging of almost every sentence in some sections of the article by this editor? Yesterday, I was in a similar situation with his tagging and Great Sankey where he tagged a swathe of sentences, and, after I supplied citations, tagged some more, and then changed the name of a section and asked me to provide more context. (Strange how I have had this happen from the same editor for a number of articles I have edited in the past, or are editing now.) I wonder whether this degree of tagging is actually counter-productive, since this one incident has made me reluctant to do work on wikipedia as it is so disheartening. Of course, I realise, as a scientist, that there is an enormous amount of work needed to get articles up to a minimum standard of referencing, but I think this can be taken as read, and that a simple note on the discussion pages of articles would not be so off-putting to people who only have a small amount of time trying to retrieve unreferenced articles (whereas it is very easy to give others a load of work by merely adding the citation needed templates.) Do you have any views about this? DDStretch   (talk)  10:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)