[WikiEN-l] List of banned books

[Jimmy Wales]

Matt Brown wrote:
> On 10/4/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at 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 reasonable.  I would recommend that more caution be used, of 
course, if the statement is one that we believe to be true, but *if 
false* would be in some way hurtful to someone.

--Jimbo