On 3/3/06, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Correct. Wikipedia editors are not journalists and have no access to the kind of fact-checking process that reporters have. This is why we publish only what reliable sources have already published.
Sorry to keep picking on you, but according to the policy, we can include the information if, as you say, it's already been published. We don't actually have to find
However, even though the e-mail exchange is not acceptable as a source, there is likely to be some other way of obtaining the information e.g. from a school magazine or local newspaper. It'll just require a bit of extra digging.
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