Jc3s5h added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105623#1660251, @Mike_Peel wrote, in part:
> > ...The standard approach in astronomy (which is the part of the scientific > literature that I'm most familiar with, as a scientist working in that field) > is to quote a number along with the uncertainty and the significance level > associated with that uncertainty. I think that's the standard approach in most fields of science and engineering, in the most serious works, for numbers that are the main focus of the article, chapter, book, etc. But these kind of sources are not always readily available to Wikidata contributors. Wikidata contributors may use other databases, or articles intended for a popular audience, which are reliable but lack explicit statements about uncertainty. The Wikidata numbers might also come from sources that mention a number in passing and so do not explicitly state an uncertainty. Unfortunately trying to impose a rule that only the //best// sources may be used to introduce data into Wikidata just isn't going to happen. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105623 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jc3s5h Cc: Mike_Peel, Jc3s5h, thiemowmde, kaldari, daniel, Stryn, Lydia_Pintscher, Liuxinyu970226, Snipre, Event, Ash_Crow, mgrabovsky, Micru, Denny, He7d3r, Bene, Wikidata-bugs, Ricordisamoa, Kelson, MSGJ, Klortho, Wolfvoll, Aklapper, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
