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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Oct 16 22:44:28 UTC 2006


geni wrote:

>On 10/15/06, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>So (as ever) some care is needed
>>here; anyone who got the idea that "any fact left uncited for
>>7 days may/must be removed" would be setting themselves or the
>>encyclopedia up for a fall.
>>    
>>
>We don't have the manpower.
>
That's a simple enough fact!  We really need painstaking fact-checking, 
and that can only be achieved over a very long time.  Mutant bots that 
simply remove fact-tags in accordance with simple time-based parameters 
aren't helping anybody.

Ec




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