[email protected] wrote: > [email protected] writes: > >> I've seen awful work done by professionals too, so I'm not >> about to abandon my judgement when I see academic or professional titles >> attached to somebody's name.>> >> > ------------------------ > I agree that credentials don't necessarily make something a reliable > source. Our standard is that the author must have been previously published > by a > third-party, known for doing fact-checking. Or something close to that > paraphrase. > >
We mostly don't know, and mostly have no way of knowing, whether the publishers of 19th century magazines checked their facts. "Gentleman's Magazine" (published 1731-1907) was highly regarded for the information it provided, but I have no way to measure the amount of fact-checking that it did. Ec _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
