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Exhibit 1036

Wikipedia:Verifiability (policy)

Exhibit 1036 ยท Policy page

Wikipedia:Verifiability (policy)

Wikipedia's content is determined by published information rather than editors' beliefs, experiences, or previously unpublished ideas or information.

The policy states that content is determined by published information in a reliable source and not by editors' beliefs or unpublished ideas, even where an editor is sure something is true.

Source
English Wikipedia (community-edited policy)
Date
archive capture 1 January 2026
Quoted from
Lead, first paragraph
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding INF-3.8
Primary record Wikipedia's policies base content on published, independent, reliable sources and presume a stand-alone article only for topics with significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Its perennial-sources page sorts sources into five statuses by community consensus. In the project's count of the page on 10 November 2026, the page had 497 rows: 472 carried a status icon (156 generally reliable, 112 no consensus, 148 generally unreliable and 56 deprecated) and 25 were blacklisted.