[WikiEN-l] 17,268 badly referenced living biographies

[Delirium]

Matthew Brown wrote:
> Worse, I often find {{fact}} applied to statements that are plainly in
> the listed sources.
>   

Yeah, I've been finding a lot of this in my attempts to wade through 
some of that category. Sometimes a {{fact}} tag will be applied to a 
statement that not only appears in the sources, but even has an inline 
footnote right near the location of the tag! It looks like a lot of 
{{fact}}-tagging is being done in a drive-by fashion by people who 
haven't read the article in question, so I've just been removing these.

A good proportion of the rest (probably 50% of my sample) are in 
articles that are completely unreferenced, but strangely have random 
sentences (usually not even particularly contentious ones) *also* tagged 
with {{fact}} in addition to an {{unreferenced}} at the top. This is 
clutter really; such articles should use a single {{unreferenced}} at 
the top and no {{fact}} tags, since using the latter makes it harder to 
use these categories. Specific sentences that for some reason are even 
more problematic than {{unreferenced}} generally implies for all 
sentences should probably be either tagged {{dubious}} or removed 
entirely, rather than tagged {{fact}}.

-Mark