My biggest complaint with Wikipedia isn't deletionism, but epistemology. Stating that the sky was blue in London on Monday May 30, 2011 demands less rigorous ve

My biggest complaint with Wikipedia isn't deletionism, but epistemology. Stating that the sky was blue in London on Monday May 30, 2011 demands less rigorous verification than claiming that the rulers of some state did or did not commit genocide. One is superficially inconsequential while the other is likely to lead to a lot of strife. To give a concrete example, a prominent US geneticist states in the biography on his personal website that his biological father was a highly decorated American pilot. This is a fairly uncontentious claim, yet fails to meet the Wikipedia standard of verifiability.