This is intended to be a page where users can post links to revisions of articles that have been thoroughly verified and fact-checked. Discussion of such articles should occur prior to their inclusion here on the talk page. Hopefully eventually something like this process will be adopted by the greater Wikipedia community, but until then I'm going to try to do it in my userspace so people can see it's a viable idea.
The scope of this project is different than that of Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check, as this project is more about "approving" specific revisions and building a list of such revisions that can be used completely reliably as resources, instead of working to improve facts in Wikipedia as a whole. This project is meant to counter criticisms against the editability of Wikipedia pages such as "anyone could have switched numbers around or even added completely erroneous but plausible sounding information just before you got to the page" by providing a stable, immutable source of verified, fact checked information.
Note: This page is intended to only be used for relatively stable topics. The topic should not be something {{current}} or something that is likely to become {{current}} any time soon. Biographical subjects who get checked on this page should preferably be dead but important figures. If the edit history of a page contains a lot of vandalism and vandalism reverts but a very small proportion of actual content edits, it's probably a good candidate for this page. Much of the advantage of a wiki encyclopedia lies in the fact that it can stay timely where static encyclopedias quickly age and become dated, but people still rely on static encyclopedias for knowledge about older topics, simply because the articles in them have reached a point where they're useful and consistantly reliable for static topics. This is an effort to change that, and as such, we should improve our weaknesses while not interfering with our strengths.
Once a revision has been approved, place a link to the editable page, the time of revision, the link itself, and the time of addition to this list by using five tildes (~).
Example:
- User:Yelyos, revision as of 00:57, November 27, 2005 (UTC), [1], added 15:01, 11 December 2005 (UTC)