Stan Shebs wrote

Thomas Dalton wrote:

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In fact, the policy is even stronger. [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]] says:

""Verifiable" in this context means that ***any reader*** should be able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source." (emphasis mine)

I've always taken that just to mean that classified documents and the like are out of bounds. We don't require that our references be available as books on tape for the benefit of illiterate Wikipedians, or that references are only English-language because not every reader knows French - it might take some effort, but every reader can learn a foreign language or hire a translator.

The drsfting of that is clearly too strong, in a sense. But 'be able' cannot anyway be replaced by the notion that this is always easy: it is still an 'in principle' formulation.

Charles

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