[WikiEN-l] History of "Verifiability, not truth"

Mon Apr 7 22:50:33 UTC 2008


> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:11:17 -0500> From: slimvirgin at gmail.com> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] History of "Verifiability, not truth"> > On 4/7/08, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:> > On 07/04/2008, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:> >> > > We don't try to impose "the truth" on people, and we don't expect that> > > they should trust anything just because they read it in Wikipedia. All> > > we do is provide what we hope are the best and most appropriate> > > sources, and a surrounding text that sums up what good sources are> > > saying, in a way that we hope is readable and that makes readers want> > > to know more. We enable them to inform themselves.> > > That's the difference between us and, say, the Encyclopaedia> > > Britannica. We empower readers. We don't ask for their blind trust.> >> >> >> > Uh, the history of [[WP:RS]] is *precisely* an attempt to impose such> > upon the reader. Canonicalising given sources is training wheels for> > sourcing at best - it's a limited rule to teach beginners right at the> > introduction to the subject. Not a basis for going on.> >> RS has always been a troubled guideline. It's wavered between versions> with long instructions about how to identify reliable sources, and> versions that are basically just a repeat of WP:V.> > _______________________________________________> WikiEN-l mailing list> WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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