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As for this, I think the reasoning given in the template you have removed was clear. "Everything here is sourced ... ." The problem is that it is sourced to the author themselves. Author A says thing A, and is sourced to author A; author B says thing B, and is sourced to author B; and so on. They should be sourced to secondary sources because when they are making analysis or interpretation, the authors become primary sources on what they said, and we need secondary sources both to avoid original research and to establish weight; if no secondary sources, and they need to be about the topic and not to something unrelated or in passing, can be found, it means they are undue, hence the tags.
As our policy says: "A book by a military historian about the Second World War might be a secondary source about the war, but where it includes details of the author's own war experiences, it would be a primary source about those experiences." Changes this to "A book by Rummel about events in Communist states might be a secondary source about the events themselves, but where it includes details of the author's own interpretation of the events, it would be a primary source about those interpretations." It is the same thing. Incidentally, for Rummel we correctly cite him to Jacobs and Totten, which is why it was not tagged, so why is not the same done for all the others? Perhaps because they are undue, as they cannot be found in secondary sources. Davide King ( talk) 01:42, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, regarding this, see multiple sections on the article talk page where this has come up. Before restoring please first discuss again, also pinging other discussion contributors. Cheers. - DVdm ( talk) 16:38, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
You might want to remove your vote on the DYK RFC. It was already closed. SL93 ( talk) 15:09, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
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Note that if I accidentally reverted your edit, feel free to revert it, if you are cleaning up vandalism, I mess up sometimes. ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 23:13, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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As for this, I think the reasoning given in the template you have removed was clear. "Everything here is sourced ... ." The problem is that it is sourced to the author themselves. Author A says thing A, and is sourced to author A; author B says thing B, and is sourced to author B; and so on. They should be sourced to secondary sources because when they are making analysis or interpretation, the authors become primary sources on what they said, and we need secondary sources both to avoid original research and to establish weight; if no secondary sources, and they need to be about the topic and not to something unrelated or in passing, can be found, it means they are undue, hence the tags.
As our policy says: "A book by a military historian about the Second World War might be a secondary source about the war, but where it includes details of the author's own war experiences, it would be a primary source about those experiences." Changes this to "A book by Rummel about events in Communist states might be a secondary source about the events themselves, but where it includes details of the author's own interpretation of the events, it would be a primary source about those interpretations." It is the same thing. Incidentally, for Rummel we correctly cite him to Jacobs and Totten, which is why it was not tagged, so why is not the same done for all the others? Perhaps because they are undue, as they cannot be found in secondary sources. Davide King ( talk) 01:42, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, regarding this, see multiple sections on the article talk page where this has come up. Before restoring please first discuss again, also pinging other discussion contributors. Cheers. - DVdm ( talk) 16:38, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
You might want to remove your vote on the DYK RFC. It was already closed. SL93 ( talk) 15:09, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
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