On 7/25/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Hmmm. Not what we're supposed to be for, though, is it? Leading the pack in documenting things? I thought we were supposed to collect information from reliable secondary sources? Without novel syntheses?
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But we shouldn't be. Unless we want to change our mission to being the *first* secondary source to document things neutrally from *primary* sources?
There is no policy against primary sources. In fact, [[WP:NOR]] explicitly states: "Original research that creates primary sources is not allowed. However, research that consists of collecting and organizing information from existing primary and/or secondary sources is, of course, strongly encouraged."
People have been overinterpreting WP:RS recently (which itself is a guideline, not policy). This is a problematic trend.
Erik