[WikiEN-l] Primary sources

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

Primary sources are hard if not impossible to verify. Don't use them.

Mgm

On 3/17/06, Jonathan <dzonatas at dzonux.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If someone uses a primary source, should the context be quoted directly?
> If it is not, would that constitute original research? Another words, if
> someone takes the primary source and interprets it to his or her own
> need, it does seem like a re-creation of a primary source. It's like
> original research in an attempt to make the primary source a secondary
> source.
>
> I've seen this kind of discussion before. The result was that all
> scholarly work is always based on secondary scholastic sources. That
> does not give an answer to the primary sources as above, but it does
> shed some insight into non-scholarly source creep.
>
> Feedback is appreciated.
>
> Jonathan
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