[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as a primary source

[Anthony]

On 3/14/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> a) No, the foundation is *not* the source. It is simply somewhere
> which happens to archive the source for the purposes of using it to
> write an encyclopedia. The source is the, well, the source; the person
> who wrote to us with the correction.

Would it be possible to publish the email sent to OTRS?  I'd be much
more comfortable treating the email itself as the source, rather than
extending the [[telephone game]] by that extra link.  There's just too
much room for error, unintentional or intentional, when we say "Andrew
Gray said that John Doe said (in an email to OTRS) that his mom told
him he was born in Brooklyn."

I'd still be somewhat uncomfortable with using an email to OTRS as a
source, though.  How would one be able to confirm that the email is
actually from the person in question?

Anthony