On June 12, 2011, an editor named “North8000″ had the temerity to propose that a core policy, Wikipedia:Verifiability, be changed in the following fashion: that the hallowed dictum,
“The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it [...]

http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20110612/v...ility-vs-truth/