[WikiEN-l] Widespread disagreement with Wikipedia:Verifiability

[The Mangoe]

What is "stronger" begs the question. In one case I dealt with,
someone who lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland was claimed to have
attended a school in Potomac on the other side of the bay. It's a
three hour plus drive from one to the other, and the school in Potomac
is not a boarding school. However this was reported by a "reputable"
medium, and therefore it became "true", in spite of the fact that it
couldn't possibly be true. I finally had to cite a high school
yearbook to beat this down, because people were willing to prefer a
source even though it could readily be shown to be false.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/29/08, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > More commonly the problems I've had
>  >  have been over "reputable" sources which happened to be wrong.
>
>  I would think that they only way to show that something in a
>  "reputable source" is "wrong" is to show a stronger "reputable source"
>  that says it's wrong. Otherwise, it's "reputable source" vs "something
>  I just know to be true".