the wub wrote:
On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote: An urban legend so prominent in fact that it is mentioned in a government report (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/03/mepess/10 - section 6.64) :-) I honestly wouldn't be that surprised if it was true, but I agree that if no one can find evidence, it doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
An urban legend so prominent that it's mentioned in a government report _does_ belong in Wikipedia for that very reason. By all means add "this is an urban legend" to it, but don't simply remove it. Otherwise when people encounter it elsewhere and do a search to find out more about it they may not discover its urban-legendness.