User:Satori Son/Verify

Satori's Adventures in New Page Patrolling: Verifiability
Verifiability has always seemed to be a fairly straightforward policy to me. Here's the gist of it:

Notwithstanding the above, many editors still find the policy challenging. Here are just some of the excuses that editors have given me for why "their" article is exempt from providing references. While, in the interest of civility, names and diffs have been omitted, these examples are all absolutely true.


 * 1) "Lots of other stubs don't provide sources."
 * 2) "If you want to verify this, go watch the television show."
 * 3) "Before I fix this article, you need to go fix the same article at French Wikipedia."
 * 4) "Articles don't grow on trees. You can't ask for sources this soon after creation."
 * 5) "Very little has been written about the subject."
 * 6) "My publicist wrote the article, so they are a primary source."
 * 7) "I am the subject of the article and can confirm everything here."
 * 8) "The {unreferenced} tag is longer than the article."
 * 9) "Just Google it. You'll see it's real."

While some of the articles involved above were not appropriate and have been deleted, others were keepers that could easily have been properly sourced when they were originally written. It's not really that difficult to provide citations for an article with a notable subject.

Examples
Here are some examples of minor articles I have properly sourced. Most of these were brand new, and some of them were up for deletion (not all New Page Patrollers are out to delete every unsourced stub they find). Remember, Google is your friend.


 * America Undercover (before and after diff)


 * Audi Q3 (before and after diff)


 * AutoNation (before and after diff)


 * Caves of Aruba (before and after diff)


 * Cesar Rene Arce (before and after diff)


 * Cindy Hensley McCain (before and after diff)


 * Cocaine Cowboys (before and after diff)


 * Computer Security Institute (before and after diff)


 * Daimler-Hyundai Truck (before and after diff)


 * DC Design (before and after diff)


 * Genpet (before and after diff)


 * John Carter (author) (before and after diff)


 * Kenneth Fetterman (before and after diff)


 * Laura Csortan (before and after diff)


 * Megha Mittal (before and after diff)


 * Museum of Hoaxes (before and after diff)


 * Net6 (before and after diff)


 * Pace (before and after diff)


 * Pray TV (1982 film) (before and after diff)


 * Simon says (before and after diff)


 * Spy Wiper (before and after diff)


 * Takehisa Yaegashi (before and after diff)


 * Three-martini lunch (before and after diff)


 * Vedanta Resources (before and after diff)


 * Verity (before and after diff)


 * When Angels Fall (before and after diff)


 * William C. Rhodes (before and after diff)


 * Zell Kravinsky (before and after diff)