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

[Philip Sandifer]

On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:18 PM, SlimVirgin wrote:

> I didn't add that phrase to V. Someone suggested it in 2004 during a
> reorganization of NOR, and I added it there. (But they suggested it
> because it is what we were already doing.) Then someone else moved it
> to V. But why does it matter who first suggested it or added it? The
> point is that it was strongly supported and still is. We don't do
> truth. We report what good sources are saying, and we leave it to the
> readers to decide what to believe.

Sorry - I was unclear. You were the one who added it to the draft of  
NOR in 2004 (though I can't find where the suggestion was originally  
made).

What you added to WP:V was a change from "Wikipedia strives to be  
accurate" to "Wikipedia strives to be reliable. That was this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Verifiability&diff=21269154&oldid=21188559

So you were the one who removed accuracy from WP:V.

Which, actually, I'm also curious what you meant by.

-Phil