User talk:Brycemilton/Archive 2016

Interview source

I don't believe you can use that email interview conducted by yourself. It's not published material, and uploading as media doesn't change that. Sources have to be published and generally available. And they have to be published by a third-party uninvolved publisher. This doesn't meet those criteria. Emails cannot be used as sources. Skyerise (talk) 20:24, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Skyerise! As a novice Wikipedia editor, I wasn’t quite sure how to make use of this information because it wasn’t published in a respectable primary or secondary source, but then it finally occurred to me that David himself could be regarded as a respectable source WP:SECONDARY for this information due to his public position, subject matter expertise, neutral treatment of the subject matter, general accuracy of the verifiable content, and non-controversial nature of the unconfirmed content. --Brycemilton (talk) 20:55, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Only if the material gets published. We can't use oral sources. There is a subject-matter-expert exception that would allow us to use it even if it were self-published, say on his own blog, but we can't use unpublished material. Skyerise (talk) 20:58, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've passed the request on to David to see if he can repost to the EPLS blog a personal blog. Thx for the policy education. --Brycemilton (talk) 21:30, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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