[WikiEN-l] I despair

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 13:45, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

> In this case the stub was a single sentence which included a false
> claim.

How do you know it's false?  Because the person said so?  Would you have 
believed Hitler when he said he would stop if he got Czechoslovakia?

People lie about themselves all the time.

> the problem is that the source for the
> claim, which is not a good one, is flatly contradicted by the subject.
> In a conflict between a poor source and a flat denial by the subject,
> the subject wins.

Given that the subject obviously has a vested interest in how he is portrayed, 
how is he a better source than what was provided?  And since the content has 
been deleted, how is it possible for the rest of us to know what the source 
was so we can evaluate it ourselves?

-- 
Kurt Weber
<kmw at armory.com>