> ...at the other end there is the small sliver of "common knowledge" that people do not disagree about (ice cream is delicious, kittens are cute, bad things ar

> ...at the other end there is the small sliver of "common knowledge" that people do not disagree about (ice cream is delicious, kittens are cute, bad things are wrong). Yeah, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:You_don't_need_to_cite_that_the_sky_is_blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:You_don't_need_to_ci... > "Widely available, authoritative sources" is very similar to Wikipedias definition for reliable sources, and as anyone who been active there knows, the process is neither scientific nor reproducible. Of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability_not_truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability_not_tr... At least there's a method to their madness (: