On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
You're asking to open up a huge can of worms with anything else. "Well I know the source says that, but you see, I know it's not actually true, so I can still edit war over putting it in the article even though I've got no sourcing that says otherwise." We're a tertiary source, we mirror sources, not second-guess them. If a source made an error, find a better or more recent source that disagrees with them, or ask them to correct. Many will, and that has the benefit of correcting the erroneous source as well! If they refuse to correct despite having an obvious and glaring error, inform their competitors instead.
The question is not "should accuracy replace verifiability," but rather "was there a consensus to remove the need for accuracy/truth."
-Phil