If Wikipedia decides to ban primary source citing, here's what will happen:
* Numerous articles will be removed of featured, A-class, or GA status. * Wikipedia's coverage and material will be significantly limited. * A lot of good work will be removed (ruined). * Numerous editors will leave Wikipedia because their chance of writing featured articles, especially on popular culture and many other subjects, will be gone. Not to mention the fact that their hard work is being removed.
Plus, stating the facts of primary sources - like citing a script example that Darth Vader is killed at the end of Return of the Jedi, or citing an interview with a developer when stating that he was influenced by Japanese paintings - are not the same as OR.
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