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User:Sulmues is bent on using a 19th century source (from 1872) to "prove" that the town of [[Konitsa]] was "Albanian" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Konitsa&diff=prev&oldid=390943340]. The source is John Murray, one of those 19th century British travellers who roamed the Balkans. It is of course heavily outdated, and the author is not a historian or scholar of any sort, yet this user simply cannot see what is wrong with the source. Can someone please explain to him that 19th century sources are heavily outdated and should not be used? God knows I tried. Ditto here, where he is using a source from 1920 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kastoria_Prefecture&diff=prev&oldid=390934256] and (of course) can't see anything wrong with that. This user has a very hard time understanding that anything older than ~50 years is deprecated and should only be used with extreme caution. [[User:Athenean|Athenean]] ([[User talk:Athenean|talk]]) 21:19, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
:Thank you for bringing it here, Athenean. In the current version written by me, I clearly describe how "John Murray, a British book travel writer" sees the city in the 19th century [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Konitsa&oldid=390952145]. What I have a hard time understanding is why we would remove old sources, when we have no new ones on how a town looked in the 19th century. My opinion is that we would of course replace an old source as soon as a new one becomes available. Wikipedia works like that: it's the best world possible. As of today. If someone tomorrow brings a more contemporary source that will of course be more reliable and will strike the reader as such, please feel free remove my source and enter the better and newer one. But why remove old sources when they can give us some information on the articles? Thank you for your attention.--<span style="font-family: Gothic;">[[User:Sulmues|'''<big>S</big>'''ulmues]] <sup>([[User talk:Sulmues|talk]])</sup></span> 21:49, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
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