On 5/13/11 7:57 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
The job of WP:V is to make sure that assertions in Wikipedia are verifiable; it's not to ensure that verifiable stuff cannot be deleted.
Hmm, I suppose I disagree, but then I'm a fairly strong inclusionist; if it's verifiable, it belongs in Wikipedia, cited to the source that verifies it. But I don't think that's incompatible with adopting a stronger line on WP:RS. The main problem here imo is that a certain class of sources (newspapers writing about celebrity rumors) does *not* actually reliably verify anything, therefore we shouldn't treat them as a reliable source that does.
Are there any cases where editors should have discretion to delete *actually* solidly verifiable information, like some piece of physics information sourced to multiple well-respected physics review articles?
-Mark