[Foundation-l] Minimum standards for verifiability

[Gerard Meijssen]

Christoph Seydl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there is a discussion on verifiability in the German-speaking Wikipedia.
> There are discussions how freely the German Wikipedia may design its
> policy on verifiability.
>
> * Are there any rules (minimum requirements) how verifiability should be
> designed in different Wikipedias?
> * Must there be a source for every included material (e.g. a basket is a
> cylindric vessel)?
> * Is it enough that only disputed material must be sourced?
> * May a poll abolish the requirement of verifiability?
>
> I hope, you can help
Hoi,
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/basket shows you baskets.. two out of the 
four shown are not cylindric.

When a point of view is "verified" by sources, it does not mean that the 
point of view is correct. There are sources that say that the holocaust 
is a lie. If this is true because of there being sources that say that 
this is true, then there is a problem with the sources. When you then 
say that a court of law proved that something is not true, than it is a 
known fact that the world is flat.

Obviously you can have a poll that abolishes the requirement of 
verifiability. But that is like saying that all the juries that send 
people to the executioner were right in doing so.

Thanks,
    GerardM