[WikiEN-l] Notability in Wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> saintonge at telus.net writes:
>   
>> I've seen awful work done by professionals too, so I'm not 
>> about to abandon my judgement when I see academic or professional titles 
>> attached to somebody's name.>>
>>     
> ------------------------
> I agree that credentials don't necessarily make something a reliable 
> source.  Our standard is that the author must have been previously published by a 
> third-party, known for doing fact-checking.  Or something close to that 
> paraphrase.
>
>   

We mostly don't know, and mostly have no way of knowing, whether the 
publishers of 19th century magazines checked their facts.  "Gentleman's 
Magazine" (published 1731-1907) was highly regarded for the information 
it provided, but I have no way to measure the amount of fact-checking 
that it did.

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