[WikiEN-l] Question about sources

Luis Alberto Riveros riveros11 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 15:34:50 UTC 2006


In this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Brahma_Kumaris_World_Spiritual_University
It seems that VERIFIABILITY :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability


<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Walnut.png> This
policy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies>in a
nutshell:
*Information on Wikipedia must be reliable and verifiable. Facts,
viewpoints, theories, and arguments may only be included in articles if they
have already been published by reliable
sources<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources>.
Articles should cite these sources
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CITE>whenever possible. Unsourced
material may be challenged and removed.

Is in a way in contradiction with the policy below in the same page:

* *Material from self-published sources, and other published sources of
dubious reliability, may be used as sources of information so long as:*

   - *It is relevant to the organization's notability;*
   - *It is not contentious;*
   - *It is not unduly self-serving;*
   - *It does not involve claims about third parties, or about events not
   directly related to the subject;*
   - *There is no reasonable doubt about who wrote it.*

Please clarify this.
Do you want reliable sources or not? If an antagonistic group starts an
article and uses a self-published source to hurt an organization's image, is
this considered "non contentious"? or "relevant to the organization
notability?" or "unduly self-serving"?Thank you for your attention to this.



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Luis Alberto Riveros



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