Gregory Maxwell wrote:
An example of the kinds of problems you bump into when
depending on
primary sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Swampyank&diff=prev…
But there should be no problem under policy for pointing out BOTH what
a respectable primary source says along with disagreeing secondary
sources. If any policy says otherwise it should be fixed.
Is there a _primary_ source for a date of birth beyond a birth
certificate or other official registration? Seems to me that dragging
"thou shalt not quote primary sources" into arguments is more likely a
source of confusion than of clarification. Just because we don't want
people doing original research of a tendentious sort from primary
sources that need interpretative care and publishing it on Wikipedia, it
doesn't mean that we have always to wait for a secondary source to copy
across straight data.
Charles