[Foundation-l] Verifiability, reliable sources, notability and original research

Patton 123 pattonabc at gmail.com
Sun Feb 8 16:21:39 UTC 2009


I really think all of these are superflous to each other. Shouldn't they be
merged into one policy, called Wikipedia:Verifiability? I mean, look at what
we're saying here:

   - Wikipedia:Verifiability
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:V>basically says "content that
isn't blatantly obvious should be sourced".
   - Wikipedia:Reliable sources
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS>says "content should be
sourced".
   - Wikipedia:Notability <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N> says
   "if articles can't be sourced they will be deleted".
   - Wikipedia:No original
research<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research>says
"we don't allow articles on things that can't be sourced".

What do you guys think?



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