Matthew Brown wrote:
Worse, I often find {{fact}} applied to statements that are plainly in the listed sources.
Yeah, I've been finding a lot of this in my attempts to wade through some of that category. Sometimes a {{fact}} tag will be applied to a statement that not only appears in the sources, but even has an inline footnote right near the location of the tag! It looks like a lot of {{fact}}-tagging is being done in a drive-by fashion by people who haven't read the article in question, so I've just been removing these.
A good proportion of the rest (probably 50% of my sample) are in articles that are completely unreferenced, but strangely have random sentences (usually not even particularly contentious ones) *also* tagged with {{fact}} in addition to an {{unreferenced}} at the top. This is clutter really; such articles should use a single {{unreferenced}} at the top and no {{fact}} tags, since using the latter makes it harder to use these categories. Specific sentences that for some reason are even more problematic than {{unreferenced}} generally implies for all sentences should probably be either tagged {{dubious}} or removed entirely, rather than tagged {{fact}}.
-Mark