On 9 May 2013 19:21, Luke Welling WMF <lwell...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> With tags, a biography could relatively uncontroversially  be tagged as
> "Novelist, Woman, Best Selling, American, Blonde Haired, Enjoys Spicy Food"
> even if nearly everybody agrees that half the tags while true are entirely
> unimportant and not relevant to the subject's area of notability.  Whether
> some tags like race and appearance should exist at all may still generate
> debate, but if they are only ever available modifiers and not hard
> categories their offense would be softened.


It appears sir is less than entirely familiar with Wikipedia edit
wars. There is NO dispute that will not lead to six months of
wikidrama.

So yeah, whatever we use to add tags needs to be able to add citations
as well, right there next to the tag.


- d.

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