Talk:Eric Kaufmann

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primary sources

This article relies way too much on primary sources -- i.e., publications by Kaufmann himself. I intend to pare it back on this basis, and then add to it using WP:SECONDARY sources as required by WP:RS and WP:V. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 07:58, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Peer-reviewed papers, I might add. Bring in additional secondary sources, but don't remove contents supported by papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Nerd271 (talk) 15:05, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What's at stake here is primary vs. secondary (not WP:RS). Papers written by Kaufmann are primary sources with regard to material about Kaufmann. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 15:23, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but I don't see a problem with using his papers to talk about this research. Nerd271 (talk) 15:26, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that they are primary sources. (WP:PRIMARY: "a scientific paper documenting a new experiment conducted by the author is a primary source on the outcome of that experiment.") Some of Kaufmann's work is controversial; it doesn't work to have Wikipedia editors doing their own interpretation of it by using only his own papers. At a minimum, it would need to be balanced with material based on sources from others who have evaluated Kaufmann's work. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 16:05, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not really. The problem is that more secondary sources are needed. Go head! Find some and add. As always, readers are free to verify the citations for themselves. Nerd271 (talk) 16:11, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]