On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 4/7/2008 9:15:41 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
snowspinner(a)gmail.com writes:
Is anyone aware of a discussion to this end that I am not? Is there
actually a point where we clearly and deliberately decided that the
goal of Wikipedia is not accuracy?>>
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Those of us who watch the NOR and V pages, generally agree with the
understanding that what we strive for, are statements of fact which cite
sources, and
where we have two statements with conflicting facts we cite them both.
So "she had a 38 inch bust per Playboy, but Newsweek claims it was only
37"... and so on.
We are "accurate" only in-as-much as we can cite to a source, thus
"verifiable".
Which is actually just a restatement of NPOV - all of the information we
contain is accurate. It's just that we don't even try to answer certain
questions - we don't answer "what is the size of her bust" but "what
are the
major viewpoints on the size of her bust." But our answer should still be
accurate.
I mean, I'm not asking "how did we come to care about verifiability."
That's
obvious. I'm trying to figure out if there was *ever* a consensus to drop
the notion of accuracy.
-Phil