Hi there Alexandre,
Thanks for sharing. I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of your source for the line: *"**The major part of them come from representatives of actresses seeking to remove from the encyclopedia the (true) birthdate of their clients."*
Many thanks! Sara
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 04:54, Alexandre Hocquet < alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
On 16/02/2019 21:30, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote:
Dear Paulo,
OTRS can be used to verify and certify any kind of private information, not only identity of people. In Wikipedia we generally and usually send people to OTRS when they want to prove such kind of thing as their birthdate, without having to expose publicly their IDs. As far as I know, that's how it works.
I confess that my knowlege of what is actually and routinely going on in OTRS is based on indirect (and partial) observation (and I'd like to know more about it) but I don't see how an example such as ours would work. What and where would be the cited reference in the article in such a change ?
the quality of a source generally degrades with the number of times it is quoted and recycled, so that secondary sources would be generally worst, and tertiary sources, as paper encyclopedias and newspapers, would generally be the worst possible ones.
Well I believe we disagree on the merits of primary and secondary sources then. I believe that the virtue of secondary sources lies in its analysis, which is supposed to be missing in the primary sources, not its quotation.
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