[Foundation-l] Verifiability: Constitution? Question for Jimbo!

[David Gerard]

On 18/09/06, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/9/18, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> > If there are NO sources for an article, that tends to be a sign of
> > deletability on en:wp. But that is mostly applied to popular culture
> > things, where evidence of third-party verifiability may be needed to
> > establish that anyone even cares.

> Then you have a lot of deletable articles... I picked random article
> 20 times. 15 of them did not have references, 4 did (the one skipped
> did not have references, but did have a 'bibliography' section, so I
> was not sure where to put it).


It's usually applied to new ones. I save the {{unreferenced}} tag for
articles with no sources, bibliography, links etc whatsoever.

Your assumption is that anything to do with verifiability *must* be
applied pathologically or not at all.


- d.