`  Dear Jim:  You have asked a very good question about published interviews.  I believe that Wikipedia editors and reviewers take each case individually in this situation.  For example, if a person is interviewed by a professional journalist, and the interviewer writes introductory information, we assume that he or she would have checked the facts before writing it.  Also, if the person being interviewed gives non-controversial information, such as ``My restaurant is in London, England``, the interview can be used to back up that fact. Surely the interviewer would have spoken up it this obvious fact were not true. However, if in the same interview the person says ``Everyone loves my spaghetti sauce.``, that wouldn't be accepted. An independent food critic would need to write about that. In general, interviews are weak sources because most of the text is the subject's own words, and people don't always see themselves as others see them.  The weaker the source, the more are needed to corroborate facts.  However, if there are a number of different interviews published in reliable sources, they should be included as references, because the fact of being interviewed  means that the subject had come to the attention of the press.  Interviews which are not published shouldn't be used at all.  In reference to your article, I see that some of the events happened long ago.  There are surely news reports about some of these happenings, but they may be hard to find because there was no Internet then.  I faced the same problem when creating this page: Toronto Light Opera Association.  I couldn't use my mother's first hand information as a source; I had to travel to a city library and look up old microfilm newspaper records.    By the way, I have removed the Op Cit references in the article and changed them to refer to the actual source.  Op cit doesn't work well in Wikipedia, because people will come along and add a citation to a new source in between, and then the op cit points to the wrong reference.  I hope this helps. —  `