Wikipedia talk:Identifying and using primary sources: Difference between revisions
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:BLP is for living people only, you can use court documents for dead people (but you shouldn't typically). [[User:Traumnovelle|Traumnovelle]] ([[User talk:Traumnovelle|talk]]) 20:55, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
:I assume that the editors who worked on this page understood that there are inevitably “occasional exceptions” to all our policy and guideline “rules” - sooner or later there is bound to be a situation we didn’t think about when we wrote the “rule”. It is better to avoid “never” and to instead say “usually don’t” instead. That way you don’t have to rewrite “the rule” when those occasional exceptions crop up. [[User:Blueboar|Blueboar]] ([[User talk:Blueboar|talk]]) 21:02, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
::Blueboar, the problem is that then you have newer editors arguing that it only says "usually," so it's really OK to use this court document that they want to use as a source for a living person (which happened today, leading me here to read the text). Personally, I'd rather say that it's never acceptable for living persons (recognizing that there may be an IAR exception that gets OKed through consensus), and that they're usually not acceptable for people who have died.
::Traumnovelle, thanks for pointing that out, I'd totally overlooked that. I think it would be good to distinguish between people who are/aren't living in this text. [[User:FactOrOpinion|FactOrOpinion]] ([[User talk:FactOrOpinion|talk]]) 21:39, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
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