Hello (and please pardon the crossposting),
I am a Ph.D. researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway,
Ireland. My Ph.D. topic is online discussions, specifically the reasoning and
arguments people use. I am currently studying Articles for Deletion in English
Wikipedia, to
On 5/11/11 2:40 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
A while ago there was a discussion at WP:V talk whether we should
recast the policy's opening sentence:
The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—
whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been
Mark,
I agree that verifiability, not truth has done a good job in keeping out
original research of the kind you describe. I just think that the situation
with regard to OR is no longer what it was five years ago -- there has long
been a critical mass of editors who know that Wikipedia is not
On 12/05/2011, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Mark,
I agree that verifiability, not truth has done a good job in keeping out
original research of the kind you describe. I just think that the situation
with regard to OR is no longer what it was five years ago -- there has long
been a
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[mailto:wikien-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ian Woollard
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You see I would argue precisely the opposite; I
Yup.
But my point is celebrity stories in newspapers, if they use unnamed or
unattributable sources, are not reliable and should never amount to
verification.
We might as well source things from random internet blogs and claim: but
this is verification (it may be true or not, but we don't care
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Scott MacDonald
doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote:
But my point is celebrity stories in newspapers, if they use unnamed or
unattributable sources, are not reliable and should never amount to
verification.
Unfortunately, the current language of WP:V not only
--- On Fri, 13/5/11, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:
Verification not truth must not be a suicide pact
and certainly not an
excuse for sloppy publishing of gossip on BLPS.
The idea that someone cannot challenge a source fact simply
because
they doubt its truth is very useful,
