On 5/28/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
What is: 3. John Q. Highschoolstudent is a brilliant basketballer and has made numerous appearences on TV.
Presume that we can't find any google references to back this up. Presume (debatable) for the sake of argument that if the claim is true, this is notable enough. Do we classify it as unverifiable? Do we call it hoax? Is it still vanity, whatever that means?
My own personal response is: zao it, don't look back. Be kind about it. But zap it.
I did. "Unverifiable" is a good catch all for "you're probably making this up", but doesn't sound quite so harsh.
Actually there seems to be an established pattern for this at [[WP:AFC]]. They don't accuse contributors of making stuff up. They just say they didn't have enough information to verify it.
Steve