Ian Woollard wrote:
On 02/02/2008, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
If I were to write an article about Hamlet and I cited only the text of the play (widely available anywhere) for all of the facts I wrote, is that article unverifiable?
Provided you stick to things that are very likely to reach consensus that what you wrote is 100% backed up by the text, it's certainly verifiable and probably notable (since Hamlet is notable).
But it fails the "third party source" requirement.
I'm not saying it's impossible to find third party sources that discuss Hamlet, of course, that would be silly. But I don't see why this is a necessary condition for _verifiability_. You can verify something based purely on primary sources.
But if you try to draw any kind of conclusion, that isn't completely implied by the text, then it's OR.
Not really relevant, though. OR is a whole 'nother policy.