Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone

Request for clarification from December 2006
The following was copied from Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone to Reliable sources some time ago:"[...] when a substantial body of material is available [...] the best material available is acceptable, especially when comments on its reliability are included."Some questions have risen as to the interpretation of that phrase ("can't work out what it's trying to say" ). Could the arbitrators clarify what the above sentence means? Or would they say the sentence should be clear in its context (Requests for arbitration/Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone)? --Francis Schonken 22:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)


 * In order to keep the discussions on a single spot, may I ask the Arbitrators to post their clarifications at Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources? Tx! --Francis Schonken 10:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

What's unclear? In the context of the case, it says that, given a large corpus of material on a topic, that has not been subject to scholarly analysis, it is acceptable to quote selectively and with qualification from it. Charles Matthews 10:46, 6 December 2006 (UTC)