[WikiEN-l] Verifiability

Fri Dec 16 20:12:07 UTC 2005

Steve Bennett wrote:
>David Gerard wrote:

>>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?

Sorry, when I said "text" I meant the book, movie, TV show, etc, not the
article text. (I'm obviously suffering a mild infection of academic jargon.)

And for the answer to your question, I'm going to say: editorial
judgement. We can't Taylorise everything.

- d.