To add items to this Facts Matter page, simply click the edit button then add true/false/disputed items in the appropriate box.   Be sure to save your changes before you leave the page. To add a footnote (which will be numbered automatically in the order they are added and will appear at the bottom of the page) simply write the following: {footnote}WRITE RESOURCE INFORMATION HERE{footnote}

Ultimately, We the Wiki is mostly about the importance of facts.  It's built to support good facts, bring misinformation (and those who rely on misinformation) into the sunshine, and provide a resource to people wanting to synthesize facts. 

Unquestionably there is more to making good decisions than having good facts.  Plenty of judgment and wisdom helps too.  But without good facts, solutions are build on shaky ground and probably doomed to fail.  Facts are what facts are.  We have to do our best to sort out what's true, what's not.

Try as we might to selectively "fact" find in order to support our most earnestly held ideologies, sooner or later the chickens of factual distortion come home to roost. Decisions made using bad facts tend to yield bad results. Sure, it's fun to debate using only the facts that support our pre-existing conclusion, but unless we labor to understand facts that weigh against our conclusion as well, we're going to make mistakes, maybe BIG ones.

At The Village Square and We the Wiki, we're running with the whacky concept of understanding the facts before we draw conclusions.