Talk:Jean Baptiste Charbonneau

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[edit] "Carpet bombing" with {{fact}} tags

Hi Jlittlet, per your request I went ahead and started tagging the things I think need to have citations. I stopped in the middle though, because as you can see, basically everything should be cited. It looks like you've got a handful of excellent references but it really helps future editors if everything is cited in-line, especially since the references were added after the article was written. (Not to assume bad faith, but are you sure what you added isn't a "further reading" section?) The gist of the guideline about this is here. If you look at an article like Oregon Supreme Court, which was rated as a Good Article, you can see that just about every sentence is cited. This is especially helpful when there are so many references, like that article has. If the Charbonneau article is to be expanded and perhaps someday even nominated for GA status, it's best if all the existing information is cited. Otherwise it's really unclear exactly what those books are supposed to be citing. If an article is really short and unlikely to be expanded, I think it's OK, as it says in WP:CITE, to use general references: "Articles can be supported with references in two ways: the provision of general references – books or other sources that support a significant amount of the material in the article – and inline citations, that is, references within the text, which provide source information for specific statements." The trend, at least for WikiProject Oregon articles, is to cite specific statements, however. Thanks! Katr67 07:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Not every sentance needs a citation, but certainly more need citations than have them currently.--Cúchullain ^t/c 07:18, 10 September 2007 (UTC)