[WikiEN-l] Citationgate: expertise and verifiability

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It is clearly true, and not at all silly, that some
facts in articles do not need sources to be given.
However, the criterion "widely accepted" suggested
here is not enough.  For a fact to not need a
citation it should be widely accepted, uncontroversial,
and very easy to check.  The last criterion is maybe
the important one.

For example, if an article mentions Paris as the
capital of France then it does NOT need to cite a
geography book as verification that Paris is indeed
the capital of France.  Similarly, an article should
be able to refer to the revolution of the Earth
around the Sun without citing an astronomy journal.

Zero.

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