[Foundation-l] Ensuring veracity of articles based on print sources

[Birgitte SB]

There is  only one way to *ensure* the veracity of
articles based on print sources, and that is fact
checking.  Any shortcuts to fact checking can be
gamed.  Of course, you can make the game harder than
it currently is, but if you are aiming for 100% no
hoaxes making them harder to recognize will not help
IMHO.


Birgitte SB

--- James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:

> For those books not mentioned in Google, we would of
> course do our best to
> compile a list. Then once the list is made, knowing
> Google, it would only be
> a matter of time that the list of old books would be
> listed on Google,
> therefore making my testing mechanism work.
> 
> If we were to compile a list of these books, we'd
> probably have to protect
> these pages from editing to prevent misuse/fraud.
> 
> On 10/3/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/10/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > As Erik pointed out, it is very easy to make a
> hoax seem legitimate if
> > you
> > > cite a phony print source. What's not needed is
> new rules involving the
> > use
> > > of print sources, but to utilise something we
> had all along: Google.
> > > Something we could do is Google the title of the
> book being referenced,
> > and
> > > then see if it exists (beyond being mentioned in
> wiki mirrors). If it
> > > doesn't exist, then we take further action. One
> thing we could do is for
> > > every print source approved in an article, we
> can note that said print
> > > sources have been verified to be true on the
> talk page (via some sort of
> > > yellow talk page box). Comments?
> >
> >
> > I use lotsa references that aren't in Google and
> probably never will
> > be (e.g. for indie rock). There's a whole world
> between 1923 and 1995
> > in that category.
> >
> > A list could be nice, of course.
> >
> >
> > - d.
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