On Sep 14, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Sarah <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 14:28, Theo10011 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Adding video-taped interviews is the next step. Imagine articles about >> the Second World War containing video interviews by Wikipedians of >> people who lived through certain parts of it. There is no inherent POV >> issue there, so long as we observe NPOV, just as we do with text. >> Primary sources are already allowed, so long as used descriptively and >> not interpreted. >> >> Sarah >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > I had no idea we were so liberal about original research/primary sources > from the countless hours I spent in #wikipedia-en-help telling new users why > their cited references were rejected. Well, now we can finally have those > thousands of articles about cure-alls and diet-pills, and penis-enlargement > exercises, since the manufacturer's own research would satisfy those > standards.
I'm not sure how this is related to the multimedia and images question? Will having multimedia illustrating an article mean that we have more cure-alls and diet-pills articles? Or is this a slippery-slope argument? > > Now I wonder who I can cite for this picture of Bigfoot(allegedly) I found > somewhere. > > Theo > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l Heather Ford Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver http://ushahidi.com | http://swiftly.org @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
