In a message dated 4/7/2008 9:15:41 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
Is anyone aware of a discussion to this end that I am not? Is there actually a point where we clearly and deliberately decided that the goal of Wikipedia is not accuracy?>>
------------------------------------------------------- Those of us who watch the NOR and V pages, generally agree with the understanding that what we strive for, are statements of fact which cite sources, and where we have two statements with conflicting facts we cite them both.
So "she had a 38 inch bust per Playboy, but Newsweek claims it was only 37"... and so on.
We are "accurate" only in-as-much as we can cite to a source, thus "verifiable". I don't see any need to say a word about "Truth" or "truth" for that matter. Maybe you could re-state your argument.
Will Johnson
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On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 4/7/2008 9:15:41 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
Is anyone aware of a discussion to this end that I am not? Is there actually a point where we clearly and deliberately decided that the goal of Wikipedia is not accuracy?>>
Those of us who watch the NOR and V pages, generally agree with the understanding that what we strive for, are statements of fact which cite sources, and where we have two statements with conflicting facts we cite them both.
So "she had a 38 inch bust per Playboy, but Newsweek claims it was only 37"... and so on.
We are "accurate" only in-as-much as we can cite to a source, thus "verifiable".
Which is actually just a restatement of NPOV - all of the information we contain is accurate. It's just that we don't even try to answer certain questions - we don't answer "what is the size of her bust" but "what are the major viewpoints on the size of her bust." But our answer should still be accurate.
I mean, I'm not asking "how did we come to care about verifiability." That's obvious. I'm trying to figure out if there was *ever* a consensus to drop the notion of accuracy.
-Phil