2009/1/6 Carl Beckhorn cbeckhorn@fastmail.fm:
The idea that these sources should be avoided entirely would simply be silly. The idea that it's better to avoid primary sources entirely is more applicable when "primary source" means "blog post".
And even then that can be just silly. e.g. [[EXA]] - the original developer's blog post announcing it is a highly relevant source, and it's ridiculous to purge it based on robotic interpretation of the wording of the NOR rule.
It is unfortunate that we can no longer assume that guidelines will be interpreted with a drop of good sense, and instead have to write them in damage control mode.
- d.