On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Searching far and wide to find a secondary source that quoted the primary > source gains you *nothing* except compliance with Wikipedia rules. The > secondary source isn't going to do any better fact-checking than you did when > you just looked at the primary source directly--it just fills a rules > requirement. The secondary sources (presumably, ideally) will discuss why there is a discrepancy between the birth records and the obituaries and encyclopedias and dig into the issue a lot further than just merely announcing "the obituaries are wrong". Searching far and wide may be too much to ask, and I realize that not every editor has the research mojo of a librarian, but all I did was track down a newspaper article and a biography. Perhaps digging up the former is too much, but is it really too much to ask that editors working on a biographical article crack open a biography of the subject? _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
