On 10/4/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)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