[WikiEN-l] Age fabrication and original research

[Liam Wyatt]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:13 PM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>
> "Write about what is verifiable, rather than what you or someone happens to
> believe is true" is a soundbite, a way to express that approach. We don't
> know 100.000% about reality, or history, or culture, or any area. We do
> know
> what credible students of reality, history and culture have concluded and
> without dipping into philosophy, that is what we document.
>

The soundbite I use is that "Wikipedia outsources truth". The debate about
what is or isn't true is not ours but is played out amongst the various
sources that we can draw upon as references.

-Liam [[witty lama]]

wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata


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