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[edit] References needed
Would someone do me the favor of auditing this article for anything where a citation might be needed and {{fact}} tagging it? Robert K S 11:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- Citations should be added as liberally as possible so that every statement can be verified as not being original research. Although the recent addition of {{fact}}s are valid, I would also like to see references for the Art Fleming section as well. I will not volunteer to find references, though; that's done better by someone who is much more familiar with the show than I am.
- I'd also like to comment on the recently closed AfD which happened while I was away. If I was !voting, I would have said week keep or merge. I can see how the article reads like a how-to even after Robert's well-intended edits (a contestant goes through this, then this, then this, etc.). I have no idea how to convert how-to prose into encyclopedic prose, and that's possibly why how-tos are included in WP:NOT. If a how-to guide answers the question "How does a contestant get on Jeopardy!?", this article may answer some of that, meaning this article could be a how-to. But a phrase like "20 auditioners are reduced to 10 this way" does not sound like a how-to to me. Most of the non-how-to info is relevant enough to be in the main article, and would have been easy to merge if the main article was not so large.
- As for message board posts as references, regardless of the message board contributors' credentials, they really should be avoided for verifiability reasons. For example, I would learn about television ratings from this board, but I would never dare use those postings as references in an article. TLK'in 05:49, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
