[WikiEN-l] Verifiability and Africa

[Rob]

I'm sure an anthropologist would be very interested in this.  We, however,
are writing an encyclopedia, not compiling an oral history of the world.
There are enough areas of human knowledge that we don't have sufficiently
covered that fall under the scope of our quixotic mission without creating
all new categories of things to accomplish.

On 3/2/06, Nicholas Moreau <beaubeaver at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   Suppose a tribes' elder writes an article on his village, he'll do
> it  based on oral history, or one-off documents. This information may
> be  recorded in books, but these books are stashed away in libraries
> miles  upon miles away.
>