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From: hildanknight(a)gmail.com
Subject: Verifiability leads to systemic bias
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Signed,
J.L.W.S. The Special One
On 8/10/07, J.L.W.S. The Special One <hildanknight(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Since verifiability is the topic of the day, could someone help me start a
thread about how verifiability leads to systemic bias?
2007/8/10, J.L.W.S. The Special One <hildanknight(a)gmail.com>om>:
Few newcomers know about the verifiability policy. Of those that do, how
many know where to find references, and how to format them?
2007/8/10, Majorly < axel9891(a)googlemail.com>gt;:
>
> On 10/08/07, Milos Rancic < millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The main point here is that a person who is putting some information
> > inside of article -- should put reference, too. Amount of unverified
> > statements on Wikipedia is enormous (however, I don't say that the
> > situation is better in Britannica, for example) and *there are*
> > contributors who are primary checking unverified statements.
> >
> > I completely support {{fact}} tagging (instead of
{{sources-section}}
> > and similar tags) because {{fact}}
tells to other contributors what
do
> > they need to find.
> >
> > However, if someone is working on some article, such person should
> > find sources instead of putting {{fact}} there.
> >
>
> This is often stuff from a long time ago, when things like
verifiablity
> were
> probably not as well enforced as today. People would probably copy
stuff
> from other places, or what they personally
knew (original research)
but
> not
> give a source (or, they didn't research properly and simply cited
> another
> Wikipedia article which was done in the same way.) For an article like
> Italy, I personally think it is vital such source don't exist. It's
one
of
our "Vital articles" and an article that should be on every language
Wikipedia. It's a bad choice for an article to have such bad sourcing.
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