[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

[Heather Ford]

On Sep 14, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Theo10011 wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 14:28, Theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Adding video-taped interviews is the next step. Imagine articles about
>> the Second World War containing video interviews by Wikipedians of
>> people who lived through certain parts of it. There is no inherent POV
>> issue there, so long as we observe NPOV, just as we do with text.
>> Primary sources are already allowed, so long as used descriptively and
>> not interpreted.
>> 
>> Sarah
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> 
> I had no idea we were so liberal about original research/primary sources
> from the countless hours I spent in #wikipedia-en-help telling new users why
> their cited references were rejected. Well, now we can finally have those
> thousands of articles about cure-alls and diet-pills, and penis-enlargement
> exercises, since the manufacturer's own research would satisfy those
> standards.

I'm not sure how this is related to the multimedia and images question? Will having multimedia illustrating an article mean that we have more cure-alls and diet-pills articles? Or is this a slippery-slope argument? 

> 
> Now I wonder who I can cite for this picture of Bigfoot(allegedly) I found
> somewhere.
> 
> Theo
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