Sorry, if I misinterpreted the source type, I was doing 1500 things, that was 1501...my bad I learned from my mistake!
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 2, 2014, at 8:42 PM, "stuart yeates" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 03/02/14 13:35, BWS Johnson wrote: >>> [This also serves to illustrate why wikipedia has issues as an authority >>> control system.] >> >> I went ahead and strongarmed the templates away. Feel free to add your >> thoughts on the talk page. :) >> >> Wikimedians are very cool in person, and there's acknowledgement inside >> of the community that there are several bad actors that end up making for >> lots of bad experiences. So any time you run into this, revert the changes, >> add more sources if possible, and add to the talk page so that editors that >> aren't in the know should be able to read the whys of things. > > I'm the wikimedian who added the templates there in the first place to > give the newbie author some guidance as to what needed to happen; when > the newbie editor ran out of steam I appealed for input from here. > > Wikipedia is in many ways as structured as cataloguing, but you can get > away with pretty much everything if you have secondary sources. > > The fact that anyone on this list thinks that a single-column > contemporary eye-witness account qualifies as a secondary source > staggers me. Maybe that makes me a bad actor. > > [and yes, the article is still in need of secondary sources] > > cheers > stuart > -- > Stuart Yeates > Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
