[WikiEN-l] Re: Cruft

Sun Sep 11 14:38:23 UTC 2005

On Sep 11, 2005, at 5:01 AM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
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> OR? How so. I could say a lot of things about the box anyone going
> there could verify. No original research needed. Aren't articles about
> bus stops basicly the same?

"Anyone going there" is why it's original research. There's no  
published source. The only way to verify the mailbox is to go to your  
town and repeat your research on the mailbox.

It should also be noted that I, at least, consider lone websites to  
not be verifiable. That is, if you created a website all about your  
mailbox, I still wouldn't consider it verifiable, because it's too  
ephemeral a source. Verifiability, to me, requires some degree of  
permanence - multiple websites, or existence on a website that is  
extremely unlikely to fold without a trace like an online peer  
reviewed journal.

-Snowspinner