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→Notability: The yellow pages is not a secondary or a tertiary source. A secondary sources ''builds'' on the material from primary sources. The secondary source material must be somehow transformed primary source material, and is consequently a |
→Secondary sources for notability: WhatamIdoing invited me back here to have a look. Will Beback doesn't seem to be saying anything disagreeable. I have trouble here finding the focus of the discussion. One question is: What is "SPS" in "A pre |
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::::Will, my point is that if you don't know what sources the article is primarily based on, then it's going to be hard to figure out whether those sources are, and are being used as, secondary sources. There are 60 sources, and we both know that the article is not 1/60th "based primarily" upon each one of them equally. [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 01:14, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
:::::Which of those 60 sources would you consider to be genuine secondary sources? <b>[[User:Will Beback|<font color="#595454">Will Beback</font>]] [[User talk:Will Beback|<font color="#C0C0C0">talk</font>]] </b> 01:15, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing invited me back here to have a look. Will Beback doesn't seem to be saying anything disagreeable. I have trouble here finding the focus of the discussion. One question is: What is "SPS" in "A press release, in a newspaper, is a primary SPS."? --[[User:SmokeyJoe|SmokeyJoe]] ([[User talk:SmokeyJoe|talk]]) 13:43, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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