Yes but in written sources you have just that - a written record of what
was said and who said it. That is the difference in credibility between
an official press release by the airport and you phoning up some bozo in
the airport's customer services department
Cynical
Keith D. Tyler wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
Keith D. Tyler wrote:
2. I call Boeing Field on the phone and ask them
how many planes fly in and out
every day.
Thanks, but no thanks. This has all kinds of verifiability problem -
who answers the phone? Are they working from records, or BSing you
from memory so as to get you to hang up and stop bothering them?
What if I call them later, and get a different answer; do I delete
your number as out of date, or start accumulating a long list of
answers from random phone calls?
Excellent question. And the answer is the same as what you would do if
different published sources have different numbers, or what you would do
if a verifiable web site was updated with new numbers since the time
it's information was added to WP.
Attributable personal contact to an identifiable authority does not
introduce new problems that don't already present themselves in the
approved methods of research. The notion that a personal contact results
in irreconcilability or potential for inaccuracy is a disingenuous straw
man. If these were issues isolated to personal contact, I could see the
problem. But they simply and plainly are not; they occur in print and
online sourcing as well.
Kdt
There are millions of good print resources in the
world; I'd be
happy if people actually finished the job of representing their
content in WP, rather than fool around with marginal cases.
Stan
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