[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Board statement regarding biographies of l...

[David Gerard]

2009/4/22 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

>> Right, Wrong, True, False, White, Black, and so on do not exist.  They
>> don't.  No existence.  They aren't there.  Nowhere.  Ok ...

> Is that why the standard for Wikipedia is verifiability, and not truth?


A statement of objective truth concerning subjective matters is beyond
the capacity of mere humans. Verifiability from reasonably reliable
sources is the closest approximation we can muster, in the quest for a
neutral overview of the view of a given topic from 20,000 feet.


- d.