Stan Shebs said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
For example, every scholar of the subject agrees that the "Augustan History" is full of errors, and should not be trusted. Is that POV? Sure, but the "N" means "neutral", not "no", and it's perfectly valid to say "low-quality source" when that is the consensus of the experts. Saying that the "reader should use common sense" in such a situation is not only a complete abdication of our responsibility to uphold scholarly standards, but is an insult to the workers who've spent their lives studying the material in order to tell us which parts are the most believable.
You mean you don't trust me as a reader to figure out that we don't know a whole lot about what happened a long time ago? Too bad, you do me a disservice.