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If Wikipedia becomes/is the source. How do you get around the 3rd party primary source requirement?
by tiquorsj 12y ago
If Wikipedia becomes/is the source. How do you get around the 3rd party primary source requirement?
- bsamuels 12y agowikipedia is an indexing mechanism for external sources, not a primary source
- davidgerard 12y agoThe model does presume that primary and secondary sources will continue to be created. These days, what actually happens is that people create third-party sources specifically to get things into Wikipedia. sigh.
- marcosdumay 12y agoBecause of its format, Wikipedia is not a good original research repository. Creating a source just to cite it in Wikipedia is a good thing, not a bad one, I think they are quite right on having that rule.
- davidgerard 12y agoSometimes it's good, more usually it's companies getting PR stories placed in news outlets as evidence they warrant an article. (This, by the way, is something that can sometimes not work out so well.)
- saraid216 12y agoIf only we had non-profit organizations getting fact-checking stories placed in news outlets as evidence.