steven l. rubenstein said:
Tony Sidaway wrote,
As far as I'm aware, there are no useless or unacceptable sources (even /dev/random has a value in the right context), only useless and unacceptable citations.
You are not being clear, but I think you are saying that all sources are valid, but they can be used properly or improperly (for example, Nazi propaganda about Jews tells you very little about Jews, but tells you a lot about Nazis).
I think my example was clear enough; I show that a good citation describes precisely what facts the cited material represents, no more and no less. I don't think your example above is good because really all Nazi propaganda can tell you is what the Nazis thought of jews. The inference that this tells us what Nazis were like should be identified as such, and does not belong in a NPOV article.