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

[jayjg]

On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:12 PM, jayjg wrote:
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> > People keep claiming that it's hard to source "obvious facts";
> > however, in practice that's almost never the case. Obvious facts are
> > generally extremely easy to source.
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> A better and more important issue is that it's a waste of time to
> source obvious facts.

Not really. Once they're sourced, they're sourced forever, and
inserting spurious fact templates gets more difficult. And every once
in a while, you discover that what you thought was an "obvious fact"
was slightly different from what you imagined, or more complex than at
first glance, or even completely untrue.

Jay.