Slim Virgin wrote
Correct. Wikipedia editors are not journalists and
have no access to
the kind of fact-checking process that reporters have. This is why we
publish only what reliable sources have already published.
However, even though the e-mail exchange is not acceptable as a
source, there is likely to be some other way of obtaining the
information e.g. from a school magazine or local newspaper. It'll just
require a bit of extra digging.
Well, you're assuming here that the problem is actual _verification_.
No one seriously believes that schooling information in London would not be
verifiable.
My interest here is rather in people's behaviour. The user who cut the
information has, in my view, made numerous mistakes. Since the
Verifiability policy will not in any case prevent the making of mistakes,
here's the question to the class.
User:81.157.14.152 didn't follow best practice here. Enumerate the ways in
which best practice was not followed.
Charles