Erik Moeller wrote:
On 5/19/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
If you see an unsourced statement that would be libel if false, and it makes you feel suspicious enough to want to tag it as {{citation needed}}, please do not do that! Please just remove the statement and ask a question on the talk page.
Yes. And this is what we used to do before {{fact}} or its synonyms became widespread. I think that, because {{fact}} is so easy to tag onto something, the practice of moving dubious claims may have decreased somewhat in favor of tagging them. What can we practically do to change this? I think policy alone will not be sufficient, given how ubiquitous {{fact}} has already become.
Perhaps we need a new tag for claims which should be moved within n days unless cited, with its own category for maintenancy. But that might further increase the use of tagging as opposed to talk pages.
Multiplying the number of tags only provides new opportunities for getting things wrong.
Ec