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NotPhil · 4262 days ago · link · · parent · post: Renowned author Philip Roth was unable to convince Wikipedia to change an entry about one of his novels
This is what happens when people follow rules without knowing what the rules were for. I'd imagine the secondary sources rule was intended to eliminate articles which weren't noteworthy (no one else thought there was anything worth writing about) and to keep personal bias out of the articles (this is what so-and-so thought, but who knows what anyone else thought). Obviously, neither applied in this case (the author won several awards for writing, the book won several awards, and was made into a mainstream movie, so it's clearly noteworthy, and there's exactly one person who would know what inspired it, and he wouldn't be a secondary source, so what does it matter what anyone else presumes?), but hey, a rule's a rule, right?