Sean Barrett wrote:
The article [[The League of Distinguished Gentlemen]] purports to describe a secret society at Creighton University. It clearly was written by the secret society himself and is currently listed for deletion. A popular reason given in the votes for deletion is "unverifiable," the rebuttal to which is "you can't verify it because it's a /truly/ secret secret society!"
All of which is only mildly amusing, but did lead me to contemplate the possibility of a /real/ truly secret secret society. Even if such an Illuminatus really did exist, and someone really were able to penetrate it, it seems to me that the resulting exposé would be original research, and not appropriate for Wikipedia.
Thus, it seems to me that all unverifiable claims about secret societies are logically either (A) untrue, in which case they should be deleted, or (2) true, in which case they are original research and should be deleted.
Comments?
It's a bit like talking about conspiracy theories, or the cabal that controls Wikipedia. :-)
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