[WikiEN-l] Policies, notability et al, was Request to Wikipedians for BBC...

Surreptitiousness surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 19 21:42:21 UTC 2009


WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> I submit that there is no such language in any of our policies.  If there 
> is, then whoever wrote it has no clue what we meant when we were discussing 
> tertiary sources many years ago.  Tertiary sources are just summaries of 
> notable secondary sources.  So they quite obviously provide notability, in fact 
> perhaps the ultimate form of it, trouncing secondaries quite roundly, since 
> they in-fact pick the most notable topics to report out of those!
>   
Keep an eye on notability guidance and content forking policy then, 
because they may get changed at some point to become amenable to this tack.





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