On 12/21/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
Is the December 18, 1857 morning edition of [[The New York Times]] an acceptable source? It's rather hard to find a copy of it these days. How about the [[ISO 9000]] standard? The International Standards Organization charges thousands of dollars for access to it.
The sooner this, and related discussions shift from trying to define some "acceptable/unacceptable" line, to establishing a series of "preferable/less preferable" relationships, the better. Of course that's an acceptable source in certain contexts. Of course you wouldn't want to use it if you had better ones.
There are very few things that are truly unacceptable at Wikipedia: slander, copyright violations, deliberate falsehoods to name a few. Everything else is just a series of improvements that takes the crappiest stub to the best featured article.
Steve