On 5/27/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
When X is a person, anything known to be published by X is a verifiable source about X. (This is more of a heuristic than a law, as there are no doubt counterexamples.)
Verifiable source that X stated Y, you mean. We can't trust them to be telling the truth, as was pointed out.
There still seems to be no consensus on whether Wikipedia requires verifiable information, verifiable sources, or both.
Steve