[WikiEN-l] Original Research

[Steve Bennett]

On 3/27/06, David Alexander Russell <webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk> wrote:
> 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

That seems a little extreme, considering that for any other reference,
we don't require *any* form of proof whatsoever. People can simply
make up a book, and say that page 38 proves their point beyond doubt.

Simply including the person's email address seems perfectly verifiable
to me. You write to them and say "Did you really say this?"

Note also that I'm applying this specifically to the "Stephen Hawking
now rejects his own theory" scenario.

Steve