[WikiEN-l] Widespread disagreement with Wikipedia:Verifiability

[Ken Arromdee]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Ron Ritzman wrote:
> > More commonly the problems I've had
> >  have been over "reputable" sources which happened to be wrong.
> I would think that they only way to show that something in a
> "reputable source" is "wrong" is to show a stronger "reputable source"
> that says it's wrong. Otherwise, it's "reputable source" vs "something
> I just know to be true".

I still remember the case where the sources say that a covered bridge is
closed to traffic, and a guy visited it and it was open to traffic.  That's
a reliable source in any non-Wikipedia sense, but fails RS and V.