[WikiEN-l] Are TV screencaps reputable sources?

[Ray Saintonge]

Mark Gallagher wrote:

>The original research policy can be summarised as: "don't make shit up". 
>
Excellent!

>  Since a small but significant proportion of the editors who fall afoul 
>of this policy don't tend to think of their activities as "making shit 
>up"[0], we had to craft a new stick with a nail in it (sorry, "policy") 
>and write "WP:NOR" on the side[1].  NOR exists to deal with physics 
>crackpots and the like; however, in our enthusiasm to follow policy, 
>however poorly-written, to the letter, we trip over ourselves to explain 
>that articles on TV programmes must be deleted, Jimbo Wales can't 
>advertise his own birthday, diagrams must be copied from textbooks, and 
>high-quality GFDL pictures from amateur photographer Wikipedians cannot 
>be accepted.
>
>I haven't read the /Star Trek/ uniforms article, but I can see several 
>ways such an article could be written in a way that *isn't* in 
>contravention of the spirit of the principle whilst still falling afoul 
>of the letter of the policy.  And in such cases, frankly: fuck policy.
>
I'm glad to read that classical Australian bullshit detection is alive 
and well. :-)

Ec