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If you've got time, we could sure use your help on this. It could even turn into a guideline on [[Use of quoted material]]. :-) --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 11:12, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
If you've got time, we could sure use your help on this. It could even turn into a guideline on [[Use of quoted material]]. :-) --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 11:12, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
:Thank you for the reply and the clarification.
:I’ll take a stab at researching these quotes, but I want to suggest that you are misplacing the burden of proof. If you (or anyone else) is going to say that someone said, “X”, then the burden to prove that the person did indeed say “X” should be on the person making the claim. To meet this burden I would suggest that the person asserting the quote should have to point to an eyewitness account, a text written or signed by the person in question, a newspaper report, a history text, or some other reliable source for historical information. I think that is the standard that should be applied to all quotations.
:I worry that a more relaxed standard—like the one you are proposing here (I take it that you are suggesting that so long as I can find a person (or possibly a person who has some degree of education or a person who has an easily recognized name—I’m not sure why exactly you would accept Chrichton’s authority here) who attributes the quote to the person in question, it is acceptably posted to their article) will lead to bad information being posted in articles.
:The standard I am proposing is that sources have to be roughly what they would have to be if a person were writing their addition to the article as part of a college (or even a high school—assuming the high school is sufficiently strict) paper—a source used as a reference has to be reliable either by virtue of expertise or by virtue of it being an eyewitness account (or in the case of some newspaper articles a second hand eyewitness account). I’m not sure what standard you are proposing, but I would be very interested to know what exactly it is and why you think it is superior. --[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 12:01, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
#That [[Margaret Sanger]]
#That [[Margaret Sanger]]