On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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matter, but my opinion is irrelevant and we should
defer to published
sources. Verifiability not truth and all that. Or should we IAR in
cases like this and go with the "correct" date?
You can usually punt and say "This primary source says X; these other
references say Y" (with the implied: If this matters to you, go figure
it out for yourself).
We should avoid false certainty, the world is a complicated and
confusing case. When a question of fact is hard NPOV instructs us to
take a step back and address the meta-fact instead.