On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, George Herbert wrote:
The claim is made from time to time by those (inside
the project and
out) who point to [[WP:RS]] and [[WP:V]] and claim that we don't care
if something is true, only if we can find a reference for it.
I think the phrase "Verifiability, not truth" tends to suggest that.
Two, there are regular if not widely common
investigations of deeper
source info, and some sources which meet the minimal "reliable" and
"verifyable" definitions are deemed inaccurate and deleted.
The problem with that is that any such investigation which does not itself
involve a reference is original research. During the long fight for
WP:Attribution, I tried to argue that we should leave out verifiable-but-false
information. I was rebuffed.