Forum:Beta content verifiability

Throughout the last few months, beta content has found its way onto Nitrome Wiki's mainspace. These were later split into their own pages (Talk:Colour Blind), which allows the page to be more focused on a certain aspect of the game's development. This is where the issue lies.

Beta content can be captured in the form of videos and pictures, but can it be verified? A picture taken and uploaded on the wiki is not a form of a reliable source; the destination filename for the picture comes from the wiki itself. The same for videos, in a sense.

What about the links we currently have as a source? The tweets and forum posts from Nitrome prove that Nitrome was, at the time, recruiting beta testers, but it doesn't show the actual beta content. Such content is in fact so trivial it may not have a place in the mainspace. At least, not without a source. If the beta content was meant to be privately released for a few people, why would Nitrome allow this to be put onto our own articles?

That being said, such content might be interesting to share off the mainspace, such as on a user page, or blog post. If it's on an article, though, it needs to be verifiable such that a source can confirm Nitrome released it, and is thus okay with sharing the actual content. We need a source that can verify the actual beta content that does not involve ruling out all the possibilities why it's not real. That doesn't prove its verifiability. If there is no source that can show this, then the beta content becomes unverifiable, and should be taken off the mainspace as soon as possible. 21:21, June 17, 2013 (UTC)