-----Original Message----- From: The Mangoe [mailto:the.mangoe@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 6, 2007 05:15 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] FredBauder"clarifies"onattack site link policy
On 7/6/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
No, because it's a message board with no editorial oversight, run and contributed to by various anonymous individuals. Even worse, it is filled with fantastic tales of conspiracies and intrigues, 90% of them without any factual basis whatsoever, and the other 10% extremely slanted views with typically only a vague connection with reality.
So you're saying that Brandt's posts in that thread are falsifications?
I am not going to defend the general level of quality of that forum.But in the case of that thread, you exaggerate. It seems to me entirely reasonable to take at face value that it represents Brandt's reports of what he was doing and the responses he was getting.
I think you're right. The question is using it appropriately. It is a primary source, not a reliable published source. It can be used as material for original research.
Fred