wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 4/27/2009 12:06:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com writes: > > >> You are missing the point. I should not have to. If we have reasonably >> trustworthy information on something that commonsense tells us has some >> level of enduring significance, then finding a book should be unnecessary.> >> -------------------- > > How can you have "reasonably trustworthy information" without a citation? > Maybe what you mean is, "I have a citation, it's just not on Google Books". > If that's what you mean, than of course you can use it. You have to show > that the subject is notable, that is still up to the contributor. > > Commonsense is notoriously slippery. > > >
Human life is slippery and subjective - and encyclopedia that wants to record and reflect it needs to take that on board. The initial scenario was an article, created from sources connected with the subject - sources that common sense tells us are fairly reliable - yet lacking "multiple third party sources" (or at least ones produced by an afd). To be precise, the case study I had in mind was (and I can't find the afd - it was some years ago) an old village church. The sources were 1) a write-up on the church's website giving its history and some architectural details. 2) A similar page on the local village website. Now, the chances of those sources lying are fairly low. Yet, because no one could produce "multiple third party sources" we got people wanting to delete. There are quite likely to be written sources of local history - but they may not appear on the internet, in any case we have neutral, verifiable information of a building which will have some level of sustainable significance. Common sense says this is verifiable, neutral and accurate - indeed more so than the average borderline BLP with 25 hits on googlenews. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
