Talk:Wanda Gass

Using Interview in Article
Primary and non-independent sources were removed. "...anything the interviewee says about himself or herself or their own work is primary." Nurse12 (talk) 19:36, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Nurse12. I've asked The Teahouse about this, and will wait for a bit of guidance but I don't think you understand the policies regarding primary and secondary sources. Primary sources can be used to represent non-controversial facts about a person (IE: autobiographical information about a person). Please read this. Of course we allow interviews to be used in certain WP articles. There's even a template set-up to properly cite them. Lizzius (talk) 19:44, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for contacting The Teahouse, Lizzius. I do understand as the policies on WP are not difficult to comprehend. I'll look forward to a debate on these particular policies as it applies to the articles you've authored.
 * I went through the Teahouse archives and found this, which is relevant and corresponds with my reading of WP:Interviews. After notability has been established, interview data can be used to establish autobiographical facts. See this discussion. Lizzius (talk) 20:28, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

There is nothing in the source you cite that exonerates you from following WP policies regarding the use of primary and non-independent sources. "In order to demonstrate that a topic (such as a musician) is notable, you need to show that there is significant coverage in sources which are both reliable and independent." You have not demonstrated that subject is notable and the source you cite is not independent. Further, "A question and answer session with the musician published in a professionally edited music magazine would be reliable but not independent, because the content is the musician talking about themself. Such sources do have some limited use in Wikipedia, but are of no value in establishing notability." Nurse12 (talk) 20:45, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * True, but Wanda's notability is established as a notable scientist who helped make the first commercially viable digital signal processor and that is established in secondary sources. See here. Since her notability has been established as a scientist, we can use her interview as a source of non-controversial autobiographical details. The same is true at Monica Helms. Lizzius (talk) 20:53, 13 September 2016 (UTC)