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

[Pedro Sanchez]

On 10/15/06, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.com> wrote:
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> geni stated for the record:
> > On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
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> >>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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You just have to alert the rabid admins who don't wan't these kind of
unsourced statemets lying around to ban the people who keep adding
them :P