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

[Ron Ritzman]

On 4/9/08, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

>  Depends David.
>  When The Guardian reports that Scary Spice was arrested for cocaine
>  possession yesterday, and she says "Oh No I wasn't".... What are we supposed to  write?

Wouldn't this be a case where a primary source (ie an arrest record)
could be used to confirm a secondary source?