Talk:Taftsville Covered Bridge

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Regarding ice-related traffic incident[edit]

@Hazelthecrazy:: I see that you've restored an edit regarding a traffic incident at Taftsville Bridge. I have removed it again for the reasons specified below. Please discuss it here before attempting any further restorations.

For one thing, this addition is not supported by any source material previously cited in the article. Because Wikipedia:Verifiability specifies that any such addition to an article be verifiable ("Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it."), a verifiable source is needed for it to be acceptable for inclusion. If no such source exists, then the addition has no place in the article. This rule is what keeps people from idly inserting any fabricated story they please into an article, as well as ensuring that skeptical readers can easily check the source of claims. This addition simply must have a citation to confirm its accuracy.

And for what it's worth, the very inclusion of this incident in the article is of questionable relevance. Can you imagine how impractical it would be to include as "history" every single traffic incident that has ever occurred at Taftsville Bridge in its 181 years? It would quadruple the size of the article, and for what? Nothing of any real value to an encyclopedia reader. Just because some incident makes the local newspaper one day doesn't mean that the story qualifies as noteworthy "history" fit for an encyclopedia article. I'm sure many people have had traffic incidents there in years past, and many more people will in years to come. None of these relatively unimportant incidents should be cluttering up the history section of a nearly-two-century-old bridge.

So, to be honest, the addition doesn't really even seem to have any place in the article to begin with. However, if you or another editor really feels like this story is noteworthy enough to qualify as "history" for some reason, then I will for the time being cease to revert it as long as a citation is added. — Jgcoleman (talk) 16:31, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]