[WikiEN-l] Original research (was 3RR applied to both parties?)

Fri Mar 4 19:04:08 UTC 2005

Jay JG wrote

>  The inevitable
> response is "this isn't original research, these are simple facts."  Even
if
> they are indeed "simple facts" (and that is often not the case), putting
> "simple facts" together to build a case, in order to refute a quoted
> argument or position you see in some article which you don't agree with,
is
> "original research."

Can't really agree with that.  Banning deductive logic from articles isn't a
good idea.  As I have said here before, that seems to me to be an inflation
of the original research policy, meant to bar crank theories, to an
unreasonable extension of it.

Charles