[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:36:39 -0600, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

>In this case the reference is a primary source that says "these people
>go to this university." A perfectly good reference to cite when saying
>"this person goes to this university." That's hardly a creative act of
>information synthesis.

*Provided* there is only one person in the world with that name, and
provided that the source actually does say they go to that university
rather than being, say, a bare list of names.  Oh, hey!  It's a bare
list of names that doesn't actually say they are studying there.
Helloooo novel synthesis :o)

Guy (JzG)
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