[WikiEN-l] List of banned books

[Anthony]

On 10/5/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
> > If you want to go the bad-ass evil & sneaky route, simply tag all of
> > the unsourced items with {{fact}} (an edit which, granted, would take
> > some time), let them be for a week and then summarily remove them. If
> > it is as bad as you say (which I don't doubt, after a quick look at
> > it), raze and rebuild from the ground up is a very sensible option.
>
> 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.
>
> I very often see completely preposterous claims tagged with {{fact}},
> usually because an editor is being excessively cautious.  Be bold. :)
>
But log in first.  Being bold while being logged out generally amounts
to being reverted.

Anthony