--- MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Primary sources are hard if not impossible to verify.
Don't use them.
Depends on the topic, I think. Lots of Wikipedia articles survive by citing
sources from contemporary news articles, for example. I'm not sure the
primary/secondary source distinction is particularly useful for us. I'd argue
we need only to make sure that A) the source can be verified to say what it's
claimed to say; B) we can have some reasonable basis to believe the source is
trustworthy; and C) we don't add any additional interpretation of our own
beyond what the source says.
-- Matt
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