[WikiEN-l] Archives as sources proposal

[Ray Saintonge]

Sean Barrett wrote:

>Oskar Sigvardsson stated for the record:
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>>Honestly, the verifiability argument doesn't fly at all with me. If
>>you pick information out of an archive, it's most certainly
>>verifiable, someone else can check it out as well. I realise that that
>>is a hassle, but that doesn't change the fact that it is verfiable.
>>    
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>I have a specific example: the Wikipedia article on a notable historical
>figure, like all other sources I have checked, states that he had two
>wives (in series, not parallel).  However, an official government-issued
>marriage certificate on file in a county clerk's office proves that he
>had another wife between those two.  What will I be permitted to add to
>this person's article?
>
It would make no sense not to include the mid-wife.  If you saw the 
marriage certificate, and it is available for anyone who goes to that 
clerk's office to see it is verifiable.  Is it ethical to maintain 
something which you know to be false just to be in complance with 
technical regulations?

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