On 13/03/2008, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Great. Then (s)he can find such a summary on a fansite. Or, if we have reliable sources, and only if, on Wikipedia.
For this purpose, that *is* a reliable source. Such sites being written by subject area experts.
"Reliable sources" is even squishier and more subjective than "notability." e.g. No-one who's ever actually dealt with journalists would assume that because something's in the NYT it's *necessarily* accurate to a useful degree for any given purpose.
"No reliable sources" is increasingly (as in the example of your email) used as an argument from a combination of personal distaste and subject-area ignorance. This is not helpful in writing useful encyclopedia articles.
- d.