[Foundation-l] Minimum standards for verifiability

[Александр Сигачёв]

> there is a discussion on verifiability in the German-speaking Wikipedia.
> There are discussions how freely the German Wikipedia may design its
> policy on verifiability.

2-3 weeks ago translation of English policy
[[Wikipedia:Verifiability]] was not approved in vote by community of
Russian Wikipedia.

It was necessary two third of voices "pro", but the policy has
received only 59%. (Has voted 90 wikipedians)

Reasons of opponents were:

* What is the reputable source? We never shall come to a consensus in this
* great delay in development of the project
* Abusings of deletists
* The rule is evident. We against bureaucracy and rules in text.
* There is no detailed description of practical application
* Our project still very young for such strict rule (Russian Wikipedia
has more then 100,000 articles)
* Disagreement with opposition: Verifiability - True
* It will be possible to remove the majority of existing articles
* Discrepancy of translation (the translation was as much as possible
close to the English text)
* Difference of mentality of participants of the English project and
Russian. We need proper "localised"  text.
* Impossibility to write about simple "household" things, phrases,
internet culture objects etc
* Rules should describe an existing practice, instead of sharply to enter new

I hope, that we shall accept this text even as recommendations (guide,
not policy)

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Amike kaj kunlabore,
Alexander Sigachov
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:.:Ajvol:.