My beef is this ... What counts as a reliable source? Does a mention of a POV-pushing political phrase in heresy-hunting leftist rag count as a reliable source, such that said phrase could be used to label people and parties that may go 10 or 20% in the general direction claimed, but not the 100% claimed by the label applied to them? Lately I've had such run-ins. POV-pushing publications (even if respected by otherwise respectable people) do not count as verifiability. <probably a rabbit trail for your conversation> -- Chris (aka Gudsthegn)
On 4/23/06, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
I had a bash at creating a proposal which would define notability on wikipedia as meaning that an article or topic is mentioned in a third party reliable source. I figure it should be impossible to write an article without a third party reference, as per [[WP:V]], [[WP:NOR}] and [[WP:NPOV]], and so I hope that people will consider using that as the level for notability in areas where no other guidance exists.
Thoughts welcomed at [[Wikipedia:Notability/Proposals]].
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