[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

Phil Sandifer snowspinner at gmail.com
Sun Dec 28 13:17:49 UTC 2008


On Dec 28, 2008, at 12:55 AM, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:

> All of that is primary source material.  Your opinion about a  
> source  is a
> primary source.
>
> A secondary source isn't merely an opinion piece about a primary   
> source.
> That is, creating an opinion article, doesn't mean you are now  
> creating a
> secondary source.
>
> Opinion pieces are all primary material.

This is generally speaking both a poor description of primary sources  
and of our internal definition of them.

-Phil



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