[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's two kinds of material: "derivative/compiled" and "original/group-authored."

[slimvirgin at gmail.com]

On 4/22/06, Daniel P. B. Smith <wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com> wrote:
> In theory, Wikipedia should not contain any "original/group-authored"
> articles. They do not meet the verifiability policy, and no reader
> can be sure about the facts in them.
>
> On the other hand category "B" is where you find some of the material
> that can be found "only in Wikipedia," ...
>
> Should we create a formal distinction between these two kinds of
> material? Label them separately? Have different policies coverning them?
>
>
What would the quality-control mechanism be?

Sarah