The result was delete. Cirt ( talk) 06:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC) reply
The opening paragraph makes it sound like the article will discuss how historians have greater confidence in a conclusion supported by multiple contemporary sources. This follows logically from historians' interest in contemporary sources and in mutually corroborating sources, and doesn't deserve an article to itself ( historical method seems adequate here).
In fact, the rest of the article is about the value of studying historical events without considering known "conclusions" – I can't tell whether it's using this word to mean "judgements by other historians" or merely "subsequent events" – and how that approach supposedly underpins the use of present-tense narrative in television documentaries. This seems to be original research – at least, the article doesn't cite any sources, and a search of Google Books doesn't find any instances of the phrase "contemporaneous corroboration" being used with such a meaning. EALacey ( talk) 22:09, 24 December 2009 (UTC) reply