From:
"Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
JAY JG wrote
Perhaps the [[Wikipedia:No original research]]
page needs to be
updated with
examples which make that point that if it really
is that simple,
someone
else will have done the work for you already, and
all you need to
do is
quote them.
Literally speaking, conversion of temperatures from Fahrenheit to
Celsius
would fall foul of this. And numerous other things: such as
conversion of
dates out of one calendar system into another, metrication, currency
conversion, inverting family relationships from 'nephew' to 'uncle' ...
No, that's a strawman argument. "Deductive reasoning" becomes
original research when it is used to build a case against a position
presented in an article, not when used to do unit conversions. Now if
you were to assert that based on genetics and "simple deductive
reasoning" that uncles were more closely related to nephews than aunts
were to nieces, that would be original research, and you'd have to
find some source which supported it.