Matt Brown wrote:
On 10/4/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@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 more sensible.
The overdone tagging goes both ways. Sometimes the proper bold act is just to remove the tag, and other times to remove the alleged information.
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