"jossi fresco" wrote
On Nov 22, 2007 3:11 PM, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Exactly. "Reliable" is an everyday concept. We mentally class people as reliable or not, and I defy anyone to say exactly what that means. Doesn't mean it's not a helpful notion.
Charles
No one is arguing for the dismissal of the concept of "reliable sources", which is already explained in detail at [[WP:V#Sources]]. What is being proposed is to redirect WP:RS to WP:VSources.
People are coming up with some really bad ideas these days, it seems. Keeping the in-principle discussion of verifiability, which is a Foundation level policy, separate from the nitty-gritty discussion of what a reliable source is, is a very good idea. Mainstream press is usually reliable enough to use in WP, supermarket tabloids are never. There's a grey area in between; it makes no sense to me to have comments about that near the basic point that WP can't accept unverifiable factoids.
Charles
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