[WikiEN-l] Secondary sources

[David Gerard]

2009/9/9  <wjhonson at aol.com>:

> What I said, and what I've been saying is that any source which is our
> first incident of a particular "fact" is a primary source, no matter
> what their source was.


You must appreciate, though, that your private definition of this term
is not the established meaning for this term, which has been in use
since well before Wikipedia started. And that using private
definitions of terms without acknowledging doing so only leads to
confusion.


- d.