On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > matter, but my opinion is irrelevant and we should defer to published > sources. Verifiability not truth and all that. Or should we IAR in > cases like this and go with the "correct" date?
You can usually punt and say "This primary source says X; these other references say Y" (with the implied: If this matters to you, go figure it out for yourself). We should avoid false certainty, the world is a complicated and confusing case. When a question of fact is hard NPOV instructs us to take a step back and address the meta-fact instead. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
