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

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

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!
>
> Will Johnson
>
>
>   

Out of curiosity... would you class Slashdot and Digg as
"tertiary sources" ?


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen