[WikiEN-l] Interesting debate over reliable sources

[Erik Moeller]

On 7/10/06, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> The policy is based on common sense, not dogma. When you send a letter
> to a newspaper for publication, you're expected to supply your name,
> address, and telephone number so that someone from the newspaper can
> check that you really did send it.

The processes used or not used vary nationally and internationally and
on a case-by-case basis, and even large papers do not necessarily
follow reliable processes.

> Nothing like that exists for Usenet. It's all very well to say that if X didn't
> write the post, and we quote from it, X will tell us soon enough.

That is not the argument I made.

Erik