[WikiEN-l] History of "Verifiability, not truth"

[Phil Sandifer]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You're asking to open up a huge can of worms with anything else. "Well
> I know the source says that, but you see, I know it's not actually
> true, so I can still edit war over putting it in the article even
> though I've got no sourcing that says otherwise." We're a tertiary
> source, we mirror sources, not second-guess them. If a source made an
> error, find a better or more recent source that disagrees with them,
> or ask them to correct. Many will, and that has the benefit of
> correcting the erroneous source as well! If they refuse to correct
> despite having an obvious and glaring error, inform their competitors
> instead.
>

The question is not "should accuracy replace verifiability," but rather "was
there a consensus to remove the need for accuracy/truth."

-Phil