On 10/4/05, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
Unless we can verify that the source exists, then we might as well allow every kook in who cites this certain book that was printed a few years ago, but almost every copy has been destroyed, & the publisher was forced out of business.
Quite. We should deprecate, or perhaps even eliminate, all reports that depend on obscure primary sources. We're an encyclopedia and if we cannot find a reliable secondary source that we can cite then we may have to accept that we've ventured too far away from the realm of verifiability.