[WikiEN-l] Clearer policy on self-written and obscure biographies
Daniel Mayer
maveric149 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 3 21:50:00 UTC 2004
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>I don't really understand what is the problem with
>autobiographies and why are they more unverifiable
>then biographies written by someone else.
Because Wikipedia is not a primary source. Once and /if/ that person is able
to get a real publisher to publish their autobiography, then and /only/ then
do we use their autobiography as a source.
We need some sort of filter.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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