On Oct 3, 2005, at 2:28 PM, geni wrote:
On 10/3/05, Philip Sandifer
<snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
An equally large chunk, however,
were, if not speedies, at least things that any sensible person who
watches AfD for a day or two could determine the result of in
advance. If we add "verifiability" as a speedy criterion, the number
that could be speedied goes to around 85%, I think.
Come up with a solid defintion of verifiable
Information that is checkable through a source that is both
reasonably accessible and reasonably likely to be around in a decade.
Internet sources are maximally accessible and kind of minimally
permanent, though it depends on the website - the higher the Alexa
ranking of the site that hosts the information, in general the more
likely it is to survive, if for no other reason than that
archive.org
is likely to preserve it. Random Geocities pages and the like - not
enough for verifiability.
Print media through a reputable press is pretty much always enough -
newspapers, magazines, etc. A decent rule of thumb for print would be
"Is there likely a university library in America that's holding onto
this?" If yes, it's enough.
Fair enough, but I would not include the limitation "in America".
I'm currently trying, without success, to find info about "Esson's
Land". It's a geographical territory roughly along the south shore of
Alaska. My source is a book on map projections published in 1717 (i.e.
before Captain Cook's voyages in the Pacific). I don't have enough on
it to even write a stub, but the reference source is still interesting.
Ec