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The few people that responded have a slightly non-centrist view of the Verifiability policy, I posted about it at my blog but I'm not sure if the trackback will ever come through. Anyway, the issue is actually a technical limitation in MediaWiki that won't allow for articles to start with non-capital characters. The rather extreme view that only major media is a valid source is not entirely consensus, in my opinion, but that's how it goes. I think this whole issue shows how people see wikipedia as speaking with one voice, that is not the case. Just because the person that was explaining wikipedia said something, doesn't make it the "wiki-truth", as I'm sure that person would attest to. We're all just individuals trying to make an encyclopedia, and it is truly emergent. People have a hard time with organizations with no real mouthpiece.