[WikiEN-l] Widespread disagreement with Wikipedia:Verifiability

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/1/2008 12:35:08 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
arromdee at rahul.net writes:

Asking  that someone contact a source in this case 1) probably won't work and
2)  isn't going to produce more accurate results than just believing the  
person
who said the bridge has traffic.  It's purely a bureaucratic  step which
produces no benefit other than that we can say that our rule has  been 
followed.>>



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I have never suggested they "contact a source".
What I have suggested is that you *may* contact a source *in order to* get  
them to re-publish a new statement.  Contact alone is not sufficient.
 
Many times people will say "so and so emailed me", we've never held emails  
to be sufficient since they cannot be verified independently.  The source  has 
to actually publish something that can be independently verified.
 
Will



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