[WikiEN-l] WP:ATT

[Steve Bennett]

On 3/1/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve, the merge process started about four months ago. It was a
> simple merge with no changes, and the list was informed. The aim was
> to get the two policies on one page, tighten the writing a little, and
> get rid of the word "verifiability." This was causing confusion for
> new editors because they thought it meant they had to check that
> material was true, which is what "verify" usually means, rather than
> simply checking that it had been published elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't complaining about not being notified :)

I do like the change. "Verifiability" was always terribly ambiguous
and misleading. It never meant you had to verify the facts. It meant
that if someone else wanted to verify them, they had a starting point.
But it didn't really mean that either. "Attributability" is much
cleaner.

Steve