[WikiEN-l] WP:ATT

[Ray Saintonge]

Rob Smith wrote:

>On 2/28/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>> The aim was
>>to 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.
>>    
>>
>Hmm. The Latin root of verify means "true"; amazing the policy read
>"verifiable, not true".  Like in the English language, just what the hell
>did that ever mean, anyway?
>
What is verifiable is what was actually said;  that implies nothing 
about the substantive truth of the statement.  It allows us to maintain 
NPOV by including verifiable but contradictory statements on both sides 
of an issue.  Only rarely are they both true.

Ec