[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 18:03:43 UTC 2005


On 10/4/05, Geoff Burling <llywrch at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> However, Geni, you have touched on another matter. If the material
> cited is unpublished, then we can't use it in Wikipedia. The policy is
> that if you need to depend on unpublished primary material for an
> article, have your research published first in an appropriate forum
> (in your case, a local history journal or monograph), *then* quote
> from there. As burdensome as this may seem, having your research
> published elsewhere first helps Wikipedia to offer the assurance
> that at least one set of expert eyes has examined the material we
> are using.

What about pictures?

--
geni



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