[WikiEN-l] Original Research
David Alexander Russell
webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk
Mon Mar 27 20:12:22 UTC 2006
To meet verifiability requirements the email would probably have to be
signed with a verified S/MIME certificate issued by a well-known
certification authority such as VeriSign (NOT Verisign's 'community
certificates' program or whatever the hell its called, that is not even
verified) otherwise it would be laughably easy to fake
Cynical
Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
> One question I have had: what if the author gives you permission to
> copy an entire email somewhere, including email address? That seems to
> me to be pretty verifiable, unless someone accuses you of fabricating
> the entire thing. The only question is where to put the email -
> WikiSource?
>
> Steve
>
> On 3/27/06, Geoff Burling <llywrch at rdrop.com> wrote:
>
>> Personal communications are often permitted as legit citations in journal
>> articles because (1) the author's reputation is on the line, & (2)
>> chances that someone has contacted the individual quoted to verify that
>> the quotation is accurate are in proportion to the reputaition of the
>> journal. (For example, _The New Yorker_ will almost always fact-check;
>> the _Weekly World News_ never bothers for obvious reasons.) For
>> Wikipedia's purposes, if informaiton in a personal communication is
>> important, it will eventually see print -- & then we can use it.
>>
>>
>> Geoff
>>
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