[WikiEN-l] WP:ATT

[Ray Saintonge]

Rob Smith wrote:

>On 3/1/07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>Steve Bennett wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>Exactly.  Nothing more, nothing less.
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>>>But it didn't really mean that either.
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>>Why not?
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>>>"Attributability" is much cleaner.
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>>It looks like some kind of semantic game.  Capable of being attributed?
>>It suggests that we don't need to make an attribution, only assert that
>>it is possible.  Actually attributed statements (or attributions) are
>>then verifiable.
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>"Verify" in the old sense meant patently false material was to be given
>equal weight with provable facts; this allowed for "obsolete and depracated"
>sources were abused to give '"equal weight"
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I would never have read that into it.  As to obsolte data, it should be 
a simple matter of shouwing a source where the claim that it was 
deprecated was made

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