Alphax wrote:
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Fastfission wrote:
"Respected scholar John Doe has said that the impact of Pepys on future literature is incalcuable, and at least 20 books per decade are published on him."
..and so forth would be perfectly in line with NPOV and NOR. What would not be appropriate are unattributed, "universalized" statements of value, but there's nothing in NPOV or NOR which says that all value statements whatsoever should be stripped out of articles.
Can the Foundation create another project whose job it is to create viewpoints that we can then cite?
Or is this the job of Wikisource and Wikibooks?
Or aren't we allowed to cite them, per the "no self-references" rule?
I don't know about Wikibooks but Wikisource is certainly mostly useable. It's not original research, but mostly a lot of old material that is already in the public domain.
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