[WikiEN-l] Verifiability and Africa

[Fred Bauder]

I suggest you do the same thing you would do if an elder of Crestone,  
Colorado writes an article on his village, which I have done. Use  
common sense and leave it alone unless you can add something to it.

Fred

On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Nicholas Moreau wrote:

> Africa was brought up in discussion of verifiability. This raises  
> an  important question, should/can we be lax references for African  
> content  in en?
>
>   Suppose a tribes' elder writes an article on his village, he'll  
> do it  based on oral history, or one-off documents. This  
> information may be  recorded in books, but these books are stashed  
> away in libraries miles  upon miles away.
>
>   What happens then? It's true information, but there's little or  
> no available sources for the writer to cite.
>
>   Nick/Zanimum
>
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