[Foundation-l] Native American Tribes Policy

Tue May 15 23:00:44 UTC 2007

Thomas Dalton wrote:

>>Federal recognition = verifiability (not validity).
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>Simply not true. Federal recognition may imply verifiability, but it
>isn't the same thing. We have plenty of articles on unaccredited
>"universities" (aka Diploma Mills), they are perfectly verifiable even
>if they aren't formally recognised. You logic would suggest we should
>get rid of all of them too.
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You call them "diploma mills". The proposed policy did not state they 
could not have article, only that they had to be tagged as not federally 
recognized.

Jeff