On 7/25/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
Hmmm. Not what we're supposed to be for, though,
is it? Leading the
pack in documenting things? I thought we were supposed to collect
information from reliable secondary sources? Without novel syntheses?
[...]
But we shouldn't be. Unless we want to change our
mission to being
the *first* secondary source to document things neutrally from
*primary* sources?
There is no policy against primary sources. In fact, [[WP:NOR]]
explicitly states: "Original research that creates primary sources is
not allowed. However, research that consists of collecting and
organizing information from existing primary and/or secondary sources
is, of course, strongly encouraged."
People have been overinterpreting WP:RS recently (which itself is a
guideline, not policy). This is a problematic trend.
Erik