Peter Jacobi wrote:
"Stephen Bain"
<stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The articles on last year's London bombings
are also good examples.
[[2006 transatlantic aircraft plot]], within a few hours after the
story broke, was just about the best source available.
If a Wikipedia article is "the best source available", it has
become original research.
I don't think that's true at all. The entire point of Wikipedia is to
produce a good reference that didn't previously exist. We take the huge
amount of information out there and produce high-quality, reliable,
referenced summaries. If we do that, we become the best reference on a
number of things---not because we're conducting original research, but
because we've summarized widely-spread information into a readable
summary all in one place.
-Mark