london boroughs thanks for reviewing some of the london boroughs pages as you've noticed most are in a distressing state and it's a good day when the page is extended from harmless to mostly harmless i would however urge you to use the fact tag sparingly either for things that don't make sense or that are obviously disputed i had a quick look round after you 'facted' london borough of barking and dagenham and was quickly able to verify most of them from one source if you had done the same rather than leave it to me we'd probably cut the work in half but that's not to say you're wrong they needed to be verified a bizarre example which i noted you'd noticed is the london borough of tower hamlets article somebody did a drive by facting and reheading the page structure with stuff from the 'how to write about geographical settlements' some time ago they then didn't actually do any work on clearing up the mess they'd left and well it left the page in a worse state than when they'd started they also did a lot of damage to other articles in tower hamlets requesting facts all over the place and marking it as 'lacking references' you could consider marking pages as this indicates that the page or section needs further referencing and is much less disruptive editors are all volunteers and have a very mixed standard of production most of the articles are deficient in any text let alone referenced material and setting standards too high does dissuade people from contributing there's a balance to be achieved and that should be encouragement rather than an over enforcement of rules where you believe articles are deficient please do take a moment to try to reference the material rather than leave it to others i actually take a bizarre pleasure in doing that anyway thanks for all your hard work i wish all boroughs had reached the standard of london borough of croydon on a number of occasions i've tried to persuade wplondon to do a blitz on a borough of the month article by article ultimately i think it's what's needed to improve the london coverage cheers