Matt Brown wrote:
On 10/4/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
In general, I find the {{fact}} tagging to be overdone in Wikipedia. A better option is to nuke the unsourced material. Sometimes {{fact}} is warranted, I don't mean that it is always a bad idea. But it is overdone.
Personally, I tag something with {{fact}} when I believe it to be correct but it's unsourced and I don't know where to verify it myself. If I believe it's actually wrong, I prefer to move it to the talk page pending verification.
That's reasonable. I would recommend that more caution be used, of course, if the statement is one that we believe to be true, but *if false* would be in some way hurtful to someone.
--Jimbo