Talk:Alfonso López Trujillo
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What's a confederence when it's at home? Is it supposed to be a conference or a confederation?
Trujillo and Escobar
I have reintroduced Trujillo's association with Escobar, as the source explicitly states that "He also began a long association with Pablo Escobar, a notorious drug lord, that included joint membership in a civic association ... widely seen as a smokescreen for Escobar's illegal activities". I have excluded any characterization os Escobar as I didn't want to raise issues of W:POV. An assertion has been made on the history page, however, that the source provides no evidence for the claim of a "long association" and the editor excised all mention of Escobar. I maintain that mentioning the "long association" is totally compatible with W:PSTS.
1. The source makes the claim that there was a long association between Escobar and Trujillo, and the claim is neither a passing comment in the article nor open to significant interpretation as to the journalist's meaning.
2. The source, although not a peer reviewed academic journal, is highly reputable independent journal: John Allen writing a cover story for the National Catholic Reporter, which Wikipedia itself reports "has won the General Excellence award from the Catholic Press Association in the category of national news publications each year from 2000 through 2007".
There is no requirement as I can see in W:PSTS that Wikipedia requires only primary sources to substantiate claims, and to begin to second guess reputable secondary sources as to the way they handle their own evidentiary claims is contrary to W:NOR - original research is stated to include "any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position" (i.e. any wikipedian's unpublished analysis of the argumentative strength of John Allen's justifications in this article is original research). By all means, other reputable secondary sources should be sought, but it is unacceptable to redact the explicit claim of a cover story of a secondary source that easily satisfies Wikipedia's standards of reputability and reliability. Calypygian (talk) 01:05, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
