On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:10 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2008/12/29 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > >> I can point to articles that source statements and claims to Tolkien's >> letters, or quotes from those letters. The articles should probably, >> more technically, point to secondary literature that uses those >> letters as a source, but there always seems to be exceptions where >> directly citing the letter seems the best way to allow verifiability. >> I can certainly attest that quoting a secondary source can give undue >> weight when the secondary source is giving only one interpretation of >> what a letter might mean. And the concern that quoting the letter >> directly is original research is also very real. Interpretation of the >> meaning of what someone has said can be very tricky. > > > Please get to WT:NOR promptly.
Will you and Phil (and others) join me? :-) Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
