Thomas Dalton wrote:
Of course, it's much quicker to tag something than to check it. I was working on an article earlier that I added references for the bits I could find and added a {{fact}} tag to one bit I couldn't verify, although it seems right - the hope is that someone else comes across it who can check it.
If you looked for a reference and couldn't find one, I think it would have been better to remove the statement, rather than just tag it.
What he did seems right. He was able to make a judgement based on the trends in the rest of the article. I'm assuming that the unsourced statement was not particularly negative, so why not give others a chance to look.
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