[WikiEN-l] The vexed issue of sources

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

Stan Shebs wrote

> Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > In fact, the policy is even stronger. [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]] says:
> >
> > ""Verifiable" in this context means that ***any reader*** should be
> > able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been
> > published by a reliable source." (emphasis mine)
> >   
> I've always taken that just to mean that classified documents and the 
> like are out of bounds. We don't require that our references be 
> available as books on tape for the benefit of illiterate Wikipedians, or 
> that references are only English-language because not every reader knows 
> French - it might take some effort, but every reader can learn a foreign 
> language or hire a translator.

The drsfting of that is clearly too strong, in a sense. But 'be able' cannot anyway be replaced by the notion that this is always easy: it is still an 'in principle' formulation.

Charles

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