Talk:Korean Air Lines Flight 007 transcripts
Latest comment: 13 years ago by Will Beback in topic Source material
Source material edit
Wikipedia is not a repository of source material. WP:NOT. That job is handled by a sister project, Wikisource. The transcript itself should be copied there, and the remaining commentary should probably be merged back to another article. Unsigned comment by Will Beback (talk · contribs) 10:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
- The transcript was split out of the main article, per WP:LENGTH, because of that article's size. It includes commentary. Socrates2008 (Talk) 12:35, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
- I understand that. The verbatim transcript does not belong in that article, or anywhere on Wikipedia. That's why we have an entire project devoted to source material like this. Short excerpts or quotations are fine here, but entire works belong there. As for the commentary, once the transcript is removed the length issue won't be a problem anymore and it can be moved back. Some text could go to the new alternate theories article, if appropriate. Will Beback talk 12:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
- So here's the problem - the quotes were inserted ad nausium and often repeated in the original article. Putting them into this format reduced a significant amount of redundancy as well as improving clarify considerably by adding context. In particular, the ATC comms intermixed with the Soviet military comms tell a story all on their own of the flight's ill-fated last minutes, thereby directly addressing many of the previously unanswered questions. The commentary in this article is context-specific. Removing this article will bulk out the original again as multiple quotes of transcripts are re-added for emphasis or illustration. Socrates2008 (Talk) 13:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
- Wikisource is a sister project of the Wikimedia Foundation. It's very close by and works just like Wikipedia. There's honestly little chance that this article would survive an AFD, so it might as well get fixed proactively. Not to worry - it'll work out fine. Will Beback talk 13:27, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
- So here's the problem - the quotes were inserted ad nausium and often repeated in the original article. Putting them into this format reduced a significant amount of redundancy as well as improving clarify considerably by adding context. In particular, the ATC comms intermixed with the Soviet military comms tell a story all on their own of the flight's ill-fated last minutes, thereby directly addressing many of the previously unanswered questions. The commentary in this article is context-specific. Removing this article will bulk out the original again as multiple quotes of transcripts are re-added for emphasis or illustration. Socrates2008 (Talk) 13:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
- I understand that. The verbatim transcript does not belong in that article, or anywhere on Wikipedia. That's why we have an entire project devoted to source material like this. Short excerpts or quotations are fine here, but entire works belong there. As for the commentary, once the transcript is removed the length issue won't be a problem anymore and it can be moved back. Some text could go to the new alternate theories article, if appropriate. Will Beback talk 12:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)