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English and Comparative Literature, written dozens of published academic articles and teach in the Humanities at a prominent university in America; if one of my students tried to do this, they'd fail my class. This sort of policy is exactly why the academy still considers wikipedia illegitimate and a shoddy source for information. Like I said, I get that you probably didn't come up with this policy, but you must see how flawed it is. Research is done with primary sources. You always go to root. That's just basic first year scholarship. Secondary sources by definition are interpretations. And that further corrupts the data. Also, I have no axe to grind with anybody. I'd appreciate you keep such personal attacks and interpretations elsewhere, not on Knowledge (XXG). Unless of course you come up with some secondary source to validate this aspersion.
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Pallotta speaking this year at the TED conference. To be even considered for this you have to be a leader in whatever area you work in. The legal issues with Avon are now sourced to publicly available court documents by an arbitrary mediator.
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Knowledge (XXG) policy as it applies to this article, and why Knowledge (XXG) policy must be that way in general. The story of a person's life here on Knowledge (XXG), an online encyclopedia, should sum up what reliable, secondary sources say about that person's life. --
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