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.
Jay.