I'm sure I don't agree with it. I worked on the verifiability policy a while ago to get it to a rational place. Clearly *any reader* can't check every source used on Wikipedia -- some people just don't have access to the Widener Library, for example, or read French.
An excellent example. I think it basically boils down to how much work you need to put in to verifying it. As someone else said, it doesn't need to be easy to verify, but it does need to be possible. For some people it will take an unreasonable amount of effort, so it's not really verifiable for them, but as long as some people can verify it with a reasonable amount of effort, that's fine.
We should probably move this conversation to the policy talk page if we want to gather consensus to change that sentence.
"Any reader" cannot verify that Cmdr. Pickett gets eaten by a Florgbernian
Rumpox in Stargate episode 23 if said Stargate episode isn't publicly available for viewing.
We had been talking about commercially available, not publicly available. Those are two different things.
An unreleased episode is neither commercially available or publicly available. It's only available to those people that recorded it. Copyright law allows you to record things off the TV for personal viewing, it doesn't allow you to distribute it to others.