[WikiEN-l] Re: Verifiability

Fri Dec 16 11:46:18 UTC 2005

"Steve Bennett" <stevage at gmail.com> wrote in 
message news:000301c601df$013a2380$ea01a8c0 at minou...
>> Some sort of referencing should be possible. For TV or movie
>> synopses, the text itself as an implicit reference is obvious
>> and sufficient, for example.
>
> How far do you want to extend this?  For computer games, is unreferenced
> description of characters ok? What about of cheats and secrets? Of
> songs, is discussion of lyrics ok? What about chord changes? Etc.
>
> The big question: When is an unreferenced text better than no text?

When it provides enough information for someone else to find a citeable 
reference to back it up, or in the alternative to demosntrate satisfactorily 
that there is no such reference.

Maybe it's time that, instead of having to do everything, people were made 
comfortable acting in the roles of "editors" and "researchers": the former 
tidy up articles to make them readable, the latter back up articles to make 
them credible.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 