On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Surreptitiousness <
surreptitious.wikipedian(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
And of course, it is this portion of policy that
causes us issues with
regards fiction. Since the work itself is a primary source.
We haven't yet worked out to what extent a article on a fictional
subject should rely on secondary sources. Or at least reached a
consensus. It's easier to tackle fiction articles by removing
speculation and interpretation. Generally, I think that should be the
better approach, and I'd like to see a similar policy, in terms of scope
rather than content, created for articles on fictional subjects. I
think Phul Sandifer had a draft somewhere, but it's real hard to
organise a consensus in this area, there's real division running deep.
The issue for fiction can be summed up within with one question, almost.
Here is a nice simple book. Obviously any /analysis/ will be from good
quality sources. But what kind of sourcing is appropriate to its plot
summary? Many well-read books don't have plot summaries in reliable sources,
and yet "anyone reading the book can see what its basic plot is", and we
have hundreds of editors to reach consensus on what it says.
(Key issue: any book is a primary source on its own contents.)
FT2