In a message dated 8/25/2009 6:50:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, andrewrtur...@googlemail.com writes:
> Not quite. The first publication can be a secondary source, for instance > if the New York Times publishes an article on a car accident. A primary > source is something like a census return or, in this case, a witness > statement. >> > ------------------------ That is not correct Andrew. Each "source" must be published. Typically witness statements are not themselves published. You are confusing first-hand experience with primary source. A primary souce, even a census return is not first-hand, it's merely first publication. If you took you example to extreme, then there would be no primary sources at all. W.J. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
