"Thomas Dalton" wrote

For an edit to be verifiable it has to be verifiable by someone other than the person that made the edit. We're not talking about reliability of sources - it's obvious that a TV show is a perfectly reliable primary source - we're talking about whether someone else can come along and check that what the original editor said is true (assuming the source is right - a wikipedia article can never be more reliable than the sources it uses). It's not necessary that everyone be able to verify it, but a reasonable number of reasonably unconnected people should be able to, otherwise we're open to any number of hoaxes.

The _actual policy_ is based on the concept of a reliable published source. Now, there is a big quibble over 'reliable' and a smaller quibble over 'published'. One of the quibbles over 'published' would be to address the point about tiny numbers of hard copies, or other such issues.

Charles

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