User talk:Rccarman

Hello

(received by mail)

Is there an official policy on the use of the "sources" tag?

I've seen a few pages that have been tagged with it, generating a huge banner that dwarfs the rest of the content on the page (eg. http://en.rodovid.org/wk/Person:162455). To me this seems more vandalistic than productive.

Further, it seems to serve no useful purpose.

Hello Rccarman.

No, there is no official policy about anything in Rodovid.EN… This is the reason why I answer in a public way. It's up to you, users, to debate about all these rules, write them and apply them.

Anyway :

• Someone (not me) has created the "no source" template. I guess it was to be usefull.
• the record you're talking about has no source. So it seems coherent to tag it this way.
• There is a very useful purpose: making Rodovid useful. There are lots of genealogical sites, where users write anything they want, copying other users, who copied other users etc. Do we think that Rodovid should be one of these copy machine? With copy errors at each step?
• You're right, this template is huggly.

I propose you to open the debate on all these problems on Rodovid EN:Community Portal. This should be usefull.

Thank you for your message. --Christophe Tesson - ^talk. 09:49, 31 March 2016 (EEST)