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Instead of blanking the article, let's discuss it here.

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‡ Єl Cid, Єl Caɱ̩peador ᐐT₳LKᐬ 13:22, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I raised it: Wikipedia talk:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people#Old BLPs (2004) and BLPProd? yesterday too. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:47, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand why this keeps getting blanked--not being a secondary source is not intrinsically a problem for material included in an entry. It can be an argument for why the entry itself should be deleted, but under WP:NACADEMIC it may not apply here. Unless a valid argument can be advanced for why the material's inappropriate to include in the entry, it should be restored. Innisfree987 (talk) 18:27, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. The lack of secondary sources might be a reason to nominate the article for deletion but it's not a valid reason to remove, say, a list of papers the subject has published. There's no requirement that all information within an article must have a secondary source, particularly with something self-evident such as the fact that the subject published a paper. Hut 8.5 20:30, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, if I had a dollar for every time a new editor removes a primary source, citing the title of WP:SECONDARY without even reading the first sentence... 8-( Andy Dingley (talk) 20:34, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]