[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/2/2009 2:51:07 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
arromdee at rahul.net writes:

On Fri,  2 Jan 2009 WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> But, we do not *want* primary  sources to be summarized unless they have 
> already been commented upon  in secondary sources.

"Summarizing" isn't the same thing as "commented  on", so this is a 
non-sequitur.>>
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I'm not saying they are the same.  I'm saying that first a secondary  source 
must remark upon, refer to, quote from, comment upon, a primary source or  
it's information *in some fashion* (not necessarily summarizing it), *before* we  
wish to also do the same.
 
If no one mentions where Barack Obama lived his childhood, then we cannot  
use school records to show it either.  If someone cites a secondary source  
showing that he lived in Michigan, then we can cite a primary source showing  that 
he didn't.
 
That's the point I was making.
 
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