On Fri, 19 May 2006 10:24:30 +0200, you wrote:
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.
I believe it is worse than that: there is a view among many editors that nothing should be removed unless it can be *proven* false, which is completely the wrong way round, whether it be for a living person or not. There is also a widespread view that a large number of Google hits equals verifiability.
Guy (JzG)