On May 26, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Delirium wrote:
For example, I would see nothing wrong with our
article on
[[Richard M.
Stallman]] citing something he wrote on his personal website and
attributing it to him. His personal website saying "[x]" is not a
reliable source for the statement "[x] is true", but it *is* a
reliable
source for the statement "Richard Stallman has said [x]", much as a
company's official website is not necessarily a reliable source for
what
a company actually does, but *is* a reliable source for what the
company
describes itself as doing.
I see this as a good rule:
When X is a person, anything known to be published by X is a
verifiable source about X. (This is more of a heuristic than a law,
as there are no doubt counterexamples.)
--
Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch