[WikiEN-l] The new verifiability policy

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:45:25 +0100, you wrote:

>Is undetected original research a big problem in practice? 

It is in biographies, for sure.

> Is this
>policy going to have any effect on undetected original research?

Yes.  It gives unambiguous grounds for removing things which cannot be
verified from reliable secondary sources (Wikipedia is not a publisher
of first instance) and makes it less easy for people to use Wikipedia
as a soapbox.  It ends sterile edit wars over the insertion of
personal opinion.

I don't see why it's a problem, myself.  It's not as if it's a new
thing.  Sure most things don't actually cite a source, but most of
them *could* cite a source if necessary.  It's the ones that can't
which are a problem.
Guy (JzG)
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