[WikiEN-l] more WP:OFFICE shenanigans

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 02:16:42 UTC 2006


On 3/14/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> > We *don't* strive for balance.  We strive for a neutral point-of-view.
> > The distinction is small, but vital.
>
> Can you elaborate? I'm only just getting my head around WP:V. When I
> understand NPOV, I'll be 2/3 of the way to Wiki-enlightenment.
>
> PS for anyone who thinks they understand WP:V, take this multiple choice quiz:
>
> Every contribution to Wikipedia must:
> a) Be independently verifiable (eg, claiming a politican went to X
> school is logically somehow verifiable)
> b) Have been published in a verifiable source
> c) Have been published in a reliable source
> d) Be accompanied by a citation in a reliable, verifiable source
> e) All of the above
> f) None of the above
>
> Select all that apply! Have fun!

Compare to my proposed version at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability/Proposed_revision



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