I agree with Gerard on this. Textbooks are typically loaded with primary sources, and the textbook is a secondary source, even if the author of the textbook did some orijinal research to confirm what the primary source said -- does not mean that research was reviewed. As far as private definitions are concerned, if there is a key difference between yours and my definition, it can be either inconsequential in a context or a key point of difference in a conversation. Every debate leads to confusion. If you are lucky, it does not lead to polarization. _______ http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/Sound/Tiggerz.mp3 Tune http://www.pooh-corner.org/tigger_lyrics.shtml Lyrics
<wjhon...@aol.com> wrote in message news:8cbff4f848d9479-2ee4-14...@webmail-m017.sysops.aol.com... >I dispute that this is my private meaning. > And I propose that this is the standard meaning. > As well as the inworld meaning. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 1:48 am > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Secondary sources > > > > > > > > > > > 2009/9/9 <wjhon...@aol.com>: > >> What I said, and what I've been saying is that any source which is our >> first incident of a particular "fact" is a primary source, no matter >> what their source was. > > > You must appreciate, though, that your private definition of this term > is not the established meaning for this term, which has been in use > since well before Wikipedia started. And that using private > definitions of terms without acknowledging doing so only leads to > confusion. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
