[WikiEN-l] Policies, notability et al, was Request to Wikipedians for BBC...
Surreptitiousness
surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 19 21:42:21 UTC 2009
WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> 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!
>
Keep an eye on notability guidance and content forking policy then,
because they may get changed at some point to become amenable to this tack.
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