Thank you Tom, and Sarah, for your very helpful explanations - they are extremely useful.
There's a discussion on at the reliable sources notice board, for instance, which highlights some of the interpretive problems you raise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Oral_Cit...
Can I ask you how you would analyse the work of the oral citations project (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations) in terms of our policies on original research, and verifiability?
And further, how these policies might apply to the idea of social media, as well as more private archives, say, corporate archives, being used as citations? (And on that point, is there a difference between the the Native American folk archive at the Smithsonian and the corporate archives of the Michelin corporation in France, for our purposes?)
Okay, I know that's asking a lot :)
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 08:56 PM, Sarah wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Achal Prabhalaaprabhala@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
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