Talk:Virgil Fox/Archive 1

Strange Wiki Policy
I note something here, particularly in the last couple of posts, which I have seen time and time again in biographical articles on Wiki. People who have direct, personal knowledge about the subject of a biography are not allowed to include it in the biography. Yet if that same person relates their personal knowledge to a third party who happens to include it in a published work, that work is an acceptable citation for including the information in the Wiki article.

Well excuse me, but this policy is ridiculous. Why is someone's direct experience less valid than that /same/ experience filtered through a third party who, at best, is only repeating its content, and at worse may have misheard, misinterpreted, or otherwise munged it?

At some point, -every- fact was uncovered as the result of "original research". I don't see that "aging" or retyping a fact multiple times makes it any more or less valid than it is as originally uncovered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.92.174.105 (talk) 21:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)