Internally, absolutely.
I was more responding to it having been placed into an actual article (the
one on Wikipedia itself) with the only source being a diff and tweet. An
internal website log and a tweet wouldn't be enough for inclusion of
something like that in an article about any other website.
Hence my suggestion for those involved to get in touch with news outlets.
It's something very cool, and it certainly should be something we see
reporting on. It would make a great feel-good/human interest piece, so I'm
sure someone would be interested in publishing on it. And once that
happens, we can put it in articles too.
Todd
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:12 AM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I saw that user creation log and that does seem to me
to be persuasive
evidence, but persuasive evidence may not be conclusive proof. Carl Sagan
said that "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard>", and I understand if
people
would like evidence that is more verifiable to the public than a CU's
testimony, especially keeping in mind that hoaxes have been a problem on
English Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia>.
However, I also think that "assume good faith
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith>" applies here,
and I am mindful of another user who said that people made demands for
proof of their authenticity in a way that sounded to me like the
interrogators' primary motivation was harassment. Perhaps "Trust, but
verify
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify>" fits how I'm thinking
about this. The currently available evidence wouldn't be enough for me to
feel comfortable with sending out a press release, but internally (in
Wikimedia spaces) I would be happy to celebrate good news if this person is
able and willing to publicly associate the Wikipedia account with their
identity as an astronaut.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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