Hi,
There's been some talk about the use of citations as sources and evidence. I think we are treading on very thin ice here. For example, I am not a big fan of George W. Bush. I even have two books, "The Bush Dyslexicon" by Mark Crispin Miller and "The Lies of George W. Bush" by David Corn, which lambast him based entirely on his quotations. While I happen to like the books, I would hardly base an article on them--if I did, I would be attacked for bias and POV, even though all of the quotations are well documented. We have to be very careful here.
Danny
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Hi,
There's been some talk about the use of citations as sources and evidence. I think we are treading on very thin ice here. For example, I am not a big fan of George W. Bush. I even have two books, "The Bush Dyslexicon" by Mark Crispin Miller and "The Lies of George W. Bush" by David Corn, which lambast him based entirely on his quotations. While I happen to like the books, I would hardly base an article on them--if I did, I would be attacked for bias and POV, even though all of the quotations are well documented. We have to be very careful here.
Danny
I'm not sure which articles these are, but if you have a list or something, could you contact the author(s) and ask them to find the original source of the information (ie. where those books got the information from)? That kind of book usually does almost no original research and is very well-cited.
If that is impossible, you could just prefix the sentences with stuff like "Many believe..." to give it an NPOV.
LDan
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On Jan 24, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
I'm not sure which articles these are, but if you have a list or something, could you contact the author(s) and ask them to find the original source of the information (ie. where those books got the information from)? That kind of book usually does almost no original research and is very well-cited.
If that is impossible, you could just prefix the sentences with stuff like "Many believe..." to give it an NPOV.
Although this is discouraged if citations are possible. If nothing else, try to leave something on the talk page that others can use to add citations.
Peter
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