Concern arises in the cases of secondary sources which take particular points of view. Such sources marshall evidence which supports that point of view. Being "unwilling or unable to check the primary references" applies when those references are relatively easy to locate, not the case here.
Fred
From: "JAY JG" jayjg@hotmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:28:51 -0500 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Let us not attack sources as unreliable without reason
Indeed. And the way *not* to handle them is to put caveats beside them stating (in so many words) that "we have not been able to verify these as truthful" (which, of course, we don't do). Doing so, of course, would be highly POV, since it would naturally create the impression that the sources were suspect and untrustworthy, rather than the actual case that certain editors are unwilling or unable to check the primary references. The fact that only a tiny number of seconday sources seem to even be candidates for this kind of treatment is interesting.
Jay.