Bahaipedia talk:Verifiability

I would like to propose that sources by any of the central figures, or within the bounds of the Gaurdian's or Universal House of Justice's infallibility be treated a fully verifiable when referenced. This may be more of a POV issue, but deserves some explanation here. As far as I know, articles here ought to present an encyclopedic, but Baha'i point of view, this is in keeping. Gerald 06:47, 10 October 2007 (MDT)

articles about themselves

What are articles about themselves?

Also, Jimmy Wales is mentioned as founder of Bahaikipedia. Shouldn't this be mentioned somewhere in the Bahaikipedia:About page? Ernobe (talk) 07:30, 17 September 2016 (PDT)

Haha, good catch. This page was imported from Wikipedia, hence the mistake about Wales being involved, he is not. Can you give an example about an article about itself? --David (talk) 07:52, 17 September 2016 (PDT)

An article written by an author whose only source is self-published. Allowing such self-promotion is equivalent to doing without verifiability rules, because anyone could write an article about themselves and then wikilink back to it as source material in other articles.--Ernobe (talk) 09:22, 17 September 2016 (PDT)

There probably isn't much of an opportunity for that kind of content here. The possible scope of original research articles, since articles have to be related to the Faith, is probably limited to articles about people. Articles about teachings, terminology, history etc are all well documented. People on the other hand, especially living individuals, do not usually have any information about themselves online or in books, even though we may want to create an article about them. The most obvious example are authors. We have therefore allowed authors to write about themselves here in the past, though Wikipedia would never allow that. I guess the answer to your question is that it depends, we do not benefit from enforcing wikipedia's rules strictly. Was there a particular subject or article you wanted to talk more about? --David (talk) 14:50, 17 September 2016 (PDT)

From what you're saying it appears Wikipedia allows, or rather demands, that all content be properly sourced, yet does not allow writing an article about the authors of the sourced content. How contradictory is that? It is good to know that you are taking a more nuanced approach.

I've been uploading files to my account on archive.org and even tried uploading one to Wikipedia. They deleted it saying it was not being used and was of questionable notability. My question is, can I upload pdf files? For example, I recently uploaded Lua Getsingers' recollections about Abdu'l Bahas' explanations of an evolution chart she had drawn. It could then be wikilinked to from Lua Getsingers' article here. --Ernobe (talk) 09:54, 18 September 2016 (PDT)

That sounds like it might be a good fit for bahai-library.com, have you considered adding it there? User:Brettz9 would be able to answer questions about that. David (talk) 12:37, 18 September 2016 (PDT)