Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Social Text, as an academic journal, published the article not because it was faithful, true, and accurate to its subject, but because an "academic authority" had written it and because of the appearance of the obscure writing. The editors said they considered it poorly written but published it because they felt Sokal was an academic seeking ...
Just because an article does not directly hurt anyone does not mean the article should be kept. For example, if there has not been any verifiable information published in reliable sources about the subject, then there is no way to check whether the information in the article is true, and it may damage the reputation of the subject and the project.
Editors may not add information to articles simply because they believe it to be true, or even if they know it to be true. The phrase "the threshold for inclusion is verifiability, not truth" meant that verifiability is a necessary condition (a minimum requirement) for the inclusion of material, though it is not a sufficient condition (it may ...
We are not compilers of personal knowledge, we are compilers of published information. If there is no published information that discusses a topic, then Wikipedia is not the place to discuss that topic. If an article does not have reliable sources, the information in the article is non-verifiable. Because verifiability is a non-negotiable ...
Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.
It is not true that aerodynamic theory predicts that bumblebees should not be able to fly; the physics of insect flight is quite well understood. The misconception appears to come from a calculation based on a fixed-wing aircraft mentioned in a 1934 book, and was further popularized in the 2007 film Bee Movie .
The erroneous source does not include any claim that it has uncovered Doe's true birthday and that all other sources are wrong; it is just a passing reference. In this case, the correct birthday can be given in the article, without any further ado.
For example, you may know something to be true because you have witnessed it. However, on Wikipedia, article content must be verifiable in reliable sources. Another example is an article created entirely to promote a certain product. Even if all the claims in the article are true, promotional articles are not permitted.