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Wikipedia's core policy is verifiability, not truth. If you put a factual statement into an article, you're required to have a written source that Wikipedia can
by DiogenesKynikos 4mo ago
Wikipedia's core policy is verifiability, not truth. If you put a factual statement into an article, you're required to have a written source that Wikipedia can cite. "Someone who says they're the CEO said so on the talk page" doesn't cut it. If the CEO really wants to get this info into Wikipedia, they can go give an interview to a reputable newspaper, news website, magazine, etc., and then Wikipedia can cite that.
Which brings me to the second policy: notability. If JangaFX is really notable enough to have a Wikipedia page, then surely there will be plenty of coverage of it in secondary sources, so Wikipedia won't have to rely on talk-page statements by random editors claiming to be the CEO.
- SanjayMehta 4mo ago[flagged]
- thunderfork 4mo agoCited sources are as-close-to-truthful-as-one-can-manage. This is how one avoids having the truthiness of the editors matter.
- youarenaive343 4mo agoIt's just shifting the problem from one dimension to another, not actually solving it.
- DiogenesKynikos 4mo agoShifting the problem from anonymous Wikipedia editors to newspapers and magazines is a big improvement.
- mopsi 4mo ago[flagged]
- DiogenesKynikos 4mo agoWikipedia has many policies. Verifiability is one of the most important ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability. In this case, Wikipedia's policy is reasonable. I tried looking for any articles in reputable sources that discuss the Odin programming language. I couldn't find any. Not one article in any tech magazine.