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Amnesia test

I'm still reviewing Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Elstree Project. One piece of advice I'd recommend for anyone with a WP:COI attempting to write an article is the amnesia test:

Forget everything you know about The Elstree Project; act as if you know nothing
Go back to your sources and re-read them
Think about what information those sources have to offer, and include that information in the article
If you find that you can't write about a piece of information you'd like to include because it isn't covered in your sources, then don't include it. We don't want original research.
If you find that you can't write barely much of anything at all, then the subject probably isn't notable for Wikipedia.

Just some thoughts. Cheers, Michaelzeng7 (talk) 04:29, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Michaelzeng7 (talk) 16:28, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help me! Citing first party source

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Help! I'm trying to cite a source on The Elstree Project, where it states Roger Moore as one of the interviewees. There are no third party sources to verify this, but the Project's website has a behind the scenes photo of their interview with Roger Moore, which proves it to be true. I've looked at WP:SELFSOURCE but feel the guidelines are too open to interpretation.

Howie ☎ 00:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd usually say that if there is no third-party source for a certain fact, that fact likely isn't all that important in the first place. If no one but them bothers to mention that interview, neither should we. Huon (talk) 00:36, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's been reported in a print newspaper, but not online, so it's hard to prove there's been an article! Howie ☎ 00:48, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]