On Sep 11, 2005, at 5:01 AM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
OR? How so. I could say a lot of things about the box anyone going there could verify. No original research needed. Aren't articles about bus stops basicly the same?
"Anyone going there" is why it's original research. There's no published source. The only way to verify the mailbox is to go to your town and repeat your research on the mailbox.
It should also be noted that I, at least, consider lone websites to not be verifiable. That is, if you created a website all about your mailbox, I still wouldn't consider it verifiable, because it's too ephemeral a source. Verifiability, to me, requires some degree of permanence - multiple websites, or existence on a website that is extremely unlikely to fold without a trace like an online peer reviewed journal.
-Snowspinner