[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as a primary source

[Steve Bennett]

On 3/14/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Wikipedia editor happy). IMHO it would be perfectly fine for Wikipedia
> to accept such statements & corrections directly, and to refer to them
> as <ref>correction/statement submitted by XX, ticket ID #123, received
> ...</ref>. The main issue here is verifying identity, but that could
> be handled by trusted people who have access to the respective OTRS
> queue.

It's a bit ugly, and very self-referential. Which is something we
normally try and avoid. Wikipedia tries to document the external
world, not itself...see WP:SELF.

However, it's probably an acceptable, if somewhat last-resort, solution.

Steve