First, and example, and then a question/suggestion. If you get bored
with my example, please continue anyway to my question/suggestion. :)
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/10/15/how_many_times_m…
Some are easy, of course, like the Wikipedia entry
claiming that the
word blackboard ‘‘is now perceived by some as being ’politically
incorrect’ in the United Kingdom.’’ ‘‘Citation needed,’’ a parenthesis
cautioned. Indeed: a Nexis search of UK publications found some 30
blackboards in a week, against just three chalkboards.
This is a quote from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
Our full text reads:
Political correctness is a real or perceived attempt to
refine or
restrict language and terms used in public discussion to those deemed
acceptable or appropriate. For example "blackboard" is now perceived
by
>some as being "politically incorrect" in the United Kingdom,
[citation >needed] and so teachers are instructed to call it a
"chalkboard" >instead.
The tag was added here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semantic_change&diff=43364581…
So from March 12 until now, we have a request that this dubious tidbit
be sourced, with no movement.
I think that clearly this bit should have been sourced or removed a long
time ago.
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Is there any way we could have a date-stamped fact tag? Which would put
such things into a category or other similar page? The purpose would be
to provide a mechanism for people to find *older* examples of fact tags,
in order to go ahead and remove them.
I would recommend that anything like this for which no citation appears
within 7 days be removed or edited in some fashion to remove the need.
--Jimbo