On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:57:30PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > I also dispute that many of OUR biographical articles are written > entirely from primary sources. If they are they should be flagged as > problematic.
This is partially because the standards we permit for sources on biographies of living people are incredibly lax. I view this as an unfortunate side effect of the desirable goal of having thorough sourcing. For examples of the actual sourcing we use for biographies (forget about primary/secondary for a moment), scroll through the list of references at [[George W. Bush]] or [[Barack Obama]]. In addition to the majority of references to newspapers and newsmagazines, I see referneces to MS Encarta and Encyclopedia Britannica. And these are high-profile bios that presumably represent some of our best work in sourcing. - Carl _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
