“Random speculative pseudo information should be removed, unless it can be sourced.”

— Jimmy Wales

Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046440.html - Email to WikiEN-l, Tue May 16 20:30:15 UTC 2006
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