On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com wrote:
An aside: there are millions of oral testimonies hosted at thousands of extremely reputable organisations - on Native American life at the Smithsonian, or Holocaust history at Yale - which currently have no place on Wikipedia, because they're primary sources.
There is no policy disallowing the use of primary sources on the English Wikipedia. They have to be used carefully, because it's easy to misuse them, but they're definitely allowed. See the NOR policy -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:No_original_research&...
Sarah