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WP:DOYCITE specifically does not exempt these articles and they are all subject to WP:V. This is a guideline change from approx. 4 years ago. Elizium23 ( talk) 07:31, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
In the English Wikipedia, verifiability means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source.It is reasonable for me to query Ann X. Ample's quoted birth date of 1987 and remove the claim unless someone adds a citation. It's not reasonable for me to question every uncited fact in the encyclopedia and threaten to remove them all unless the community downs tools to add references everywhere by next week. Where do we draw the line in between? Is requiring citations for half a million claims reasonable? Many proofs are already one click away at the linked article which begins
Jo Schmo (born 1 January 1970)[1] is a.... On the other hand, we should be removing the birthday of someone who played tiddlywinks once for Elbonia, and the release date of the third bug fix to Sportsball 2017 (cited or not), and this exercise may help with that process. Certes ( talk) 11:08, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
We have individual articles for all years 516 BC to 2029 inclusive and a few others back to about 817 BC (plus the exceptional 15,000 BC in art). Certes ( talk) 11:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
I changed the decade articles from 490s BC to 990s to transclude births and deaths from year articles, moving entries from decade to year where appropriate. Some decades after 1000 had so many entries in the year articles that I felt they should continue to be filtered manually, but another editor has extended the transclusion to some decades up to 1350s. Previous discussion: WP Years. Certes ( talk) 12:06, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
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WP:DOYCITE specifically does not exempt these articles and they are all subject to WP:V. This is a guideline change from approx. 4 years ago. Elizium23 ( talk) 07:31, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
In the English Wikipedia, verifiability means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source.It is reasonable for me to query Ann X. Ample's quoted birth date of 1987 and remove the claim unless someone adds a citation. It's not reasonable for me to question every uncited fact in the encyclopedia and threaten to remove them all unless the community downs tools to add references everywhere by next week. Where do we draw the line in between? Is requiring citations for half a million claims reasonable? Many proofs are already one click away at the linked article which begins
Jo Schmo (born 1 January 1970)[1] is a.... On the other hand, we should be removing the birthday of someone who played tiddlywinks once for Elbonia, and the release date of the third bug fix to Sportsball 2017 (cited or not), and this exercise may help with that process. Certes ( talk) 11:08, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
We have individual articles for all years 516 BC to 2029 inclusive and a few others back to about 817 BC (plus the exceptional 15,000 BC in art). Certes ( talk) 11:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
I changed the decade articles from 490s BC to 990s to transclude births and deaths from year articles, moving entries from decade to year where appropriate. Some decades after 1000 had so many entries in the year articles that I felt they should continue to be filtered manually, but another editor has extended the transclusion to some decades up to 1350s. Previous discussion: WP Years. Certes ( talk) 12:06, 21 January 2021 (UTC)