Talk:Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Cite support

In all Wikipedia context, it is important to provide verifying cite support. This basic premise of our wiki-work is not less important in this article or others like it.

Two cite notes were removed here:

3 August at Cardiff -- in the match between Brazil and Japan, the Japanese team won 2-0.<;ref>"Brazil make shock exit from women's football event after losing to Japan 2-0," The Telegraph (UK). August 3, 2012; retrieved 2012-8-3.</ref>
6 August at London -- in the match between France and Japan, the Japanese team won 2-1.<;ref>"Japan reaches women’s football final after holding on to beat France 2-1," Washington Post (US), August 6, 2012; retrieved 2012-8-6.</ref>

IMO, the quality of the article might be improved by restoring the cites that have been taken out. If not, why not? --Horeki (talk) 00:52, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion moved from User talk:Horeki#Reply to your Comment.

Honestly I removed it because I think it didn't make the article look as good. I know that shouldn't be an excuse, but I've never seen a reference in that area of a table in any article i've seen. If we can decided a place to put the reference somewhere else I would like that then. If you forgot, this is regarding the 2012 Summer Olympics football page. --VladDoskov (talk) 03:05, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, let's agree that the added cites don't "look as good".

Yes, it is clear that you recognized a problem, and your change fixed it. At the same time, this is a good example of unforeseen consequences.

Please compare Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament which you created. It has only one cited source ... and this single link is not working. The format is mirrored, and the lack of confirming support sources is a similar issue. If someone were to add cite support anywhere, would you remove it because it doesn't look as good?

Do you begin to see my point? --Horeki (talk) 13:59, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I think the citations were fine where they were. I have seen tables with citations like that. Yes, it doesn't look the best, but sometimes that's the most applicable place to put a reference. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:48, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]