[Foundation-l] Verifiability, reliable sources, notability and original research

[Chad]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Patton 123 <pattonabc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I really think all of these are superflous to each other. Shouldn't they be
> merged into one policy, called Wikipedia:Verifiability? I mean, look at
> what
> we're saying here:
>
>   - Wikipedia:Verifiability
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:V>basically says "content that
> isn't blatantly obvious should be sourced".
>   - Wikipedia:Reliable sources
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS>says "content should be
> sourced".
>   - Wikipedia:Notability <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N> says
>   "if articles can't be sourced they will be deleted".
>   - Wikipedia:No original
> research<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research>says
> "we don't allow articles on things that can't be sourced".
>
> What do you guys think?
>

This was attempted. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Attribution.
Now it's an essay. Dig through the talk page and many many subpages if
you want to see all the mess this went through last time a merger was
proposed.

-Chad