[WikiEN-l] good example of overuse of {{fact}}

Sean Barrett sean at epoptic.com
Sun Oct 15 16:17:43 UTC 2006


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geni stated for the record:
> On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

>>I would recommend that anything like this for which no citation appears
>>within 7 days be removed or edited in some fashion to remove the need.
> 
> 
> Would need to be done by bot or we would need a way to clone
> wikignomes. We don't have the manpower.

There are many of us who would eagerly remove great swathes of dubious
{{fact}} if we could be sure that rabid admins wouldn't at best start a
sterile edit war and at worst try to ban us for "vandalizing" their
favorite campgrounds.

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