[cap-talk] Systems and people and papers

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 15:22 -0800, Charles Landau wrote:
> At 2:08 PM -0500 2/1/08, Bill Tulloh wrote:
> >On Feb 1, 2008 1:36 PM, Jed Donnelley <capability at webstart.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  >I think most of the information I have is still too immature for
> >  > >Wikipedia.
> >
> >Perhaps I'm just being old fashioned, but I am still a bit reluctant
> >to start putting up a lot of what are essentially notes up on
> >Wikipedia.
> 
> Wikipedia's policy 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability) is that 
> material has already been published by a reliable source. These notes 
> don't necessarily pass that test.

Umm. I think you may be misreading that policy. The intent of the policy
is to ensure that any judgments or statements of fact made by an article
be sourceable. It is not required that the article itself be previously
published.