bobolozo wrote:
If unreliable sources are acceptable, this means that WP:V becomes a mere suggestion, not a policy.
This conclusion does not follow.
We very strongly want everything in Wikipedia to be verifiable -- that's why WP:V is policy. However, we realize that providing unimpeachable references for every fact in Wikipedia is extraordinarily difficult. So we don't insist that every fact have an unimpeachable reference this instant.
Or at least, that's my take on it. But this question clearly touches on one of the core divides across Wikipedia, namely the eventualism/immediatism dichotomy.