[Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

[Sarah]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com> wrote:
> An aside: there are millions of oral testimonies hosted at thousands of
> extremely reputable organisations - on Native American life at the
> Smithsonian, or Holocaust history at Yale - which currently have no place on
> Wikipedia, because they're primary sources.

There is no policy disallowing the use of primary sources on the
English Wikipedia. They have to be used carefully, because it's easy
to misuse them, but they're definitely allowed. See the NOR policy --
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:No_original_research&oldid=478167288#Primary.2C_secondary_and_tertiary_sources

Sarah