On 20/03/07, SonOfYoungwood@aol.com SonOfYoungwood@aol.com wrote:
Plus, stating the facts of primary sources - like citing a script example that Darth Vader is killed at the end of Return of the Jedi, or citing an interview with a developer when stating that he was influenced by Japanese paintings - are not the same as OR.
I had always been under the impression that the point of WP:NOR was to eliminate the adding of material to the encyclopaedia on the grounds that "I know it's true from my own experience".
On 20/03/07, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
At WP:ATT he has said the the issue was not the use of primary sources, but the generation of novel conclusions based on the sources.
That would be a violation of WP:SYNT, which I think after examining the source (it's not totally clear from the page WP:ATT itself) is a subdivision of WP:NOR.