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

[Chris Picone]

> It's also a waste of time to state obvious facts in an encyclopedia article.

Why is it a waste of time? It's not like Wikipedia needs to be
competed rght now. We can spend all the time in the world editing,
regardless of efficiency level.

--Chris
"I hate —es!" --Me

On 10/17/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:12 PM, jayjg wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > A better and more important issue is that it's a waste of time to
> > source obvious facts.
> >
> It's also a waste of time to state obvious facts in an encyclopedia article.
>
> For less than "obvious" facts I do think that a source should be *somewhere*
> in the references.
>
> I also don't think people should be removing facts that they know to be
> true, just because they are unsourced.
>
> Further, and not everyone agrees with me on this, someone should do a quick
> check for a source before removing (or {{fact}} tagging) something which
> isn't at least probably false (or unprovable and therefore POV).
>
> Anthony
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