Talk:Andy Bathgate

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[edit] "First hand information"

User:Theinfoaddict recently posted what he claims to be the product of a chat between him and Bathgate, and is angry that the edit has now been twice reverted, claiming that we are not interested in first hand information. He is quite right; since Wikipedia is not a publisher of first instance, we cannot accept any such reference, which violates WP:RS, WP:V and WP:NOR:

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If his conversation was published in a newspaper or a book, then citing it would be acceptable.  RGTraynor  13:22, 9 April 2008 (UTC)