[WikiEN-l] Otto Middleton (a morality tale)

[Mark]

On 5/13/11 7:57 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> The job of WP:V is to make sure that assertions in Wikipedia are 
> verifiable;
> it's not to ensure that verifiable stuff cannot be deleted.
Hmm, I suppose I disagree, but then I'm a fairly strong inclusionist; if 
it's verifiable, it belongs in Wikipedia, cited to the source that 
verifies it. But I don't think that's incompatible with adopting a 
stronger line on WP:RS. The main problem here imo is that a certain 
class of sources (newspapers writing about celebrity rumors) does *not* 
actually reliably verify anything, therefore we shouldn't treat them as 
a reliable source that does.

Are there any cases where editors should have discretion to delete 
*actually* solidly verifiable information, like some piece of physics 
information sourced to multiple well-respected physics review articles?

-Mark