On May 14, 2007, at 6:48 PM, geni wrote:
Id does however mean you must show that a citeable statement exists if a counter statement is clearly possible (otherwise you let in all the cranks who people haven't gotten around to debunking yet)
What? No. We do not have to include hypothetical objections to statements. There is, in fact, a policy about this, called "No original research." In terms of NPOV, unless someone has actually pointed out the possibility of a land expedition to the Invincible Snowfields, it's original research to dispute the claim.
Of course, that's just in the land of querrelous rules-lawyering. In the real world of writing a usable encyclopedia in a reasonably efficient manner, the discussion pretty much ends with the fact that no reasonable or sane reader would actually interpret the statement as a claim about the possibility of mounting an expedition, but that it is in fact talking only about how someone interested in skiing the slopes would get there.
-Phil