[WikiEN-l] Secondary sources

[wjhonson at aol.com]

What I said, and what I've been saying is that any source which is our 
first incident of a particular "fact" is a primary source, no matter 
what their source was.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 8:44 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Secondary sources



>
> From: wjhonson at aol.com
>
> Sure a manuscript is an unpublished primary source, or an ancient 
book
> only held in 12 libraries.
> However if that item is published that does not create a secondary
> source.
> And if that item includes interviews with other people, that does not
> make it a secondary source.
>

How does becoming old, and being held in only 12 libraries suddenly
cause a book to revert to primary source status?

It seems that a lot of people are prone to gaming source levels to suit
their own objectives.

Ec

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