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| + | In [{{canonicalurl:Lawful Quest|diff=82899&oldid=82284}} your recent edit to the Lawful Quest page] you added "(verify?)" after a statement. Please don't do that. There's {{tl|fact}} for most of these cases (and {{tl|todo}} for worse cases); in case you're not sure about whether something is true at all, just leave a note on the talk page. | ||
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| + | The issue with adding "(verify?)" is that it's basically saying "I'm not sure, actually, perhaps this should be verified?" which isn't a great message. {{tl|fact}} does have a bit of this, too, but it's more "this still needs a reference, don't rely on it too much yet". (Also, it doesn't jump out at the reader as much.) | ||
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| + | Much more importantly, though, {{tl|fact}} is a template; (verify?) is not, and for the reasons mentioned above likely wouldn't be a really good template. (A wiki filled with information that noone knows to be correct/incorrect isn't really helpful, after all.) This means it's easy for anyone to look at [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Fact]] (specifically, the list of transclusions) and go through the pages listed there and "verify" the marked statements (or rather, add a source code reference – or remove the incorrect bit if it turns out to be incorrect, of course, though this shouldn't happen as much). Similar things apply to {{tl|todo}}, though of course that's for greater issues. | ||
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| + | Thanks! —[[User:bcode|bcode]] <sup>[[User talk:bcode|talk]] | [[Special:EmailUser/Bcode|mail]]</sup> 21:37, 22 February 2013 (UTC) | ||
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-- New user message (talk) 11:11, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
"(verify?)"
In your recent edit to the Lawful Quest page you added "(verify?)" after a statement. Please don't do that. There's {{fact}} for most of these cases (and {{todo}} for worse cases); in case you're not sure about whether something is true at all, just leave a note on the talk page.
The issue with adding "(verify?)" is that it's basically saying "I'm not sure, actually, perhaps this should be verified?" which isn't a great message. {{fact}} does have a bit of this, too, but it's more "this still needs a reference, don't rely on it too much yet". (Also, it doesn't jump out at the reader as much.)
Much more importantly, though, {{fact}} is a template; (verify?) is not, and for the reasons mentioned above likely wouldn't be a really good template. (A wiki filled with information that noone knows to be correct/incorrect isn't really helpful, after all.) This means it's easy for anyone to look at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Fact (specifically, the list of transclusions) and go through the pages listed there and "verify" the marked statements (or rather, add a source code reference – or remove the incorrect bit if it turns out to be incorrect, of course, though this shouldn't happen as much). Similar things apply to {{todo}}, though of course that's for greater issues.
