Talk:Whaling in the United Kingdom

Latest comment: 3 months ago by 103.137.142.20 in topic Use of self-published sources

Purpose of entry edit

This entry is not meant to be the final word on the subject. My intention is just to get the ball rolling. Histragic (talk) 00:00, 3 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Use of self-published sources edit

Two of the sources cited in this article, books by Jane Clayton and Charles Clayton, were published by Ms. Clayton. That makes them self-published sources unless the authors qualify as "established expert[s] on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications", and I am not able to find evidence of that. Therefore, I don't believe their books are reliable sources. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:39, 11 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

The two books are based on Jane Clayton’s 2002 PhD thesis, “The development of a Southern Whale Fishery from Britain between 1775 and 1815” accepted at the University of Wales, Swansea. I have drawn on these volumes for other purposes and found them reliable. Other contributors to Wikipedia have also used them as a source.(Histragic (talk) 11:34, 21 June 2018 (UTC)) Histragic (talk) 11:34, 21 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

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