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.