[WikiEN-l] List of banned books
Jimmy Wales
jwales at wikia.com
Thu Oct 5 04:23:54 UTC 2006
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
> If you want to go the bad-ass evil & sneaky route, simply tag all of
> the unsourced items with {{fact}} (an edit which, granted, would take
> some time), let them be for a week and then summarily remove them. If
> it is as bad as you say (which I don't doubt, after a quick look at
> it), raze and rebuild from the ground up is a very sensible option.
In general, I find the {{fact}} tagging to be overdone in Wikipedia. A
better option is to nuke the unsourced material. Sometimes {{fact}} is
warranted, I don't mean that it is always a bad idea. But it is overdone.
I very often see completely preposterous claims tagged with {{fact}},
usually because an editor is being excessively cautious. Be bold. :)
--Jimbo
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