[WikiEN-l] Primary sources

[Jonathan]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 3/17/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>That's only true for unpublished primary sources, though.  Plenty of
>>primary sources (e.g. memoirs, diaries, etc.) are quite easily
>>verifiable, if not always reliable.
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>They're reliable if they're being treated as a primary source (Eg,
>Lord Kent wrote on the 14th of March 1932 that the Germans would
>invade the next day). Treated as a secondary source (Germany invaded
>England on the 15th of March 1932 [1]), they are unreliable.
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>Steve
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>[1] Lord Kent's diary, 14th of March 1932
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Excellent example.

I wonder if we can cite personal interviews under that same pretense.

Jonathan