On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:35:34PM -0500, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
If the community has decided that it doesn't trust an article built using solely primary sources, than that is what it has decided.
If by "community" you mean "WP policy" then no such decision has been made. It is perfectly acceptable to write certain articles entirely from primary sources. Indeed, many biographical articles are written entirely from primary sources. But I agree that most articles that can be based mostly off of secondary sources should be based off of secondary sources.
I think we're drifting away from the original topic, which was not whether secondary sources in general are preferred. Nobody disputes that they are.
- Carl