On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:35:34PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> If the community has decided that it doesn't trust an article built using  
> solely primary sources, than that is what it has decided.

If by "community" you mean "WP policy" then no such decision has been 
made. It is perfectly acceptable to write certain articles entirely from 
primary sources. Indeed, many biographical articles are written entirely 
from primary sources. But I agree that most articles that can be based 
mostly off of secondary sources should be based off of secondary 
sources.

I think we're drifting away from the original topic, which was not 
whether secondary sources in general are preferred. Nobody disputes 
that they are. 

  - Carl

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