Ray Saintonge wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
For an edit to be verifiable it has to be verifiable by someone other than the person that made the edit. We're not talking about reliability of sources - it's obvious that a TV show is a perfectly reliable primary source
I've seen interesting documentaries on sasquatch sightings. Area 51 and perpetual motion machines. :-)
And they're perfectly reliable primary sources *about the documentaries*. About sasquatch and Area 51, on the other hand, they're secondary sources of perhaps more questionable reliability.
The "reliability" of a source is highly context-sensitive. I don't think anyone's proposing to use Star Trek episodes as sources for articles about real-world physics. :)