[WikiEN-l] Original research or common sense inferral?

[Matthew Brown]

On 4/2/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
> We're a tertiary source. If we go about the business of citing primary
> sources when there are no extant secondary sources, we've deviated from our
> purpose as an encyclopaedia.

The assertion that we must always be a tertiary source has been made
before, and has failed to achieve consensus.

-Matt