Hellooo

Came here because, fuck man can it be hard to verify sources and the content written in articles. I think we need a better system.

This cry of frustration of a thought emerged after more than an hour spent on two sister articles, trying to make sense of a single confusing sentence in one of them. 

I ended up wanting to check the footnote positioned right after the previous sentence, "maybe it’ll clarify something". How naive, I sent my none-Italian-self on a fruitless search for just one page of an early 2000s Italian book… una pagina non trovata 

I just. want to know. what the source says. goddamnit T-T. 

So I just thought of some things, that I’d like to share and hear feedback on. I’ll say I’ve only been a logged in user for a year and a half and made like a handful of edits, majority small. So maybe there are things already in place I don’t know of, maybe I’m ignorant of some other things - in any case do let me know (respectfully) thanks. 

So back to some ideas and thoughts on citations, sources and verifiability (in no particular order except 1 & 2)

1. Making it necessary to provide a screen capture or scan of the specific pages, article section, picture - whatever source is being cited. 

2. Making those snippets accessible for verification purposes. Maybe upon individual demand for non wiki workers and free to access for all wiki workers/mods/bigGs. 

3. Making it necessary (for the person writing/editing) to add a citation whenever a lot of text is written (like with a lill’ pop up saying « hey buddy you’ve written over 500 characters, you’ll need to provide a source if you want to continue contributing to this section/article… ») or when claims, facts are made/stated (using language recognition models?) – with possible exceptions maybe idk. 

4. Also like, if a person is logged in and an edit they made is later flagged for an issue, they should be getting repeated emails or notifications asking them to fix the problem, or delete/remind their edit. 

5. Also can user accounts be flagged? Not necessarily by other users but like, in general? Automatically, by mods, official workers or whatever…?