[WikiEN-l] Policies, notability et al, was Request to Wikipedians for BBC...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

I submit that there is no such language in any of our policies.  If there 
is, then whoever wrote it has no clue what we meant when we were discussing 
tertiary sources many years ago.  Tertiary sources are just summaries of 
notable secondary sources.  So they quite obviously provide notability, in fact 
perhaps the ultimate form of it, trouncing secondaries quite roundly, since 
they in-fact pick the most notable topics to report out of those!

Will Johnson



In a message dated 8/19/2009 2:16:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com writes:

> The thrust of the argument against tertiary sources 
> is this: "Third party sources don't provide any evidence of notability 
> unless they contain some sort of commentary on their subject matter, 
> othewise they are classed as tertiary sources."