[WikiEN-l] Times article (London)

[Ken Arromdee]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, George Herbert wrote:
> The claim is made from time to time by those (inside the project and
> out) who point to [[WP:RS]] and [[WP:V]] and claim that we don't care
> if something is true, only if we can find a reference for it.

I think the phrase "Verifiability, not truth" tends to suggest that.

> Two, there are regular if not widely common investigations of deeper
> source info, and some sources which meet the minimal "reliable" and
> "verifyable" definitions are deemed inaccurate and deleted.

The problem with that is that any such investigation which does not itself
involve a reference is original research.  During the long fight for
WP:Attribution, I tried to argue that we should leave out verifiable-but-false
information.  I was rebuffed.