On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Sean Barrett wrote:
I have recently noticed another form of what I
consider to be "original
research," and I'd like to see if the consensus agrees with me.
The article [[The League of Distinguished Gentlemen]] purports to
describe a secret society at Creighton University. It clearly was
written by the secret society himself and is currently listed for
deletion. A popular reason given in the votes for deletion is
"unverifiable," the rebuttal to which is "you can't verify it because
it's a /truly/ secret secret society!"
All of which is only mildly amusing, but did lead me to contemplate the
possibility of a /real/ truly secret secret society. Even if such an
Illuminatus really did exist, and someone really were able to penetrate
it, it seems to me that the resulting expos� would be original research,
and not appropriate for Wikipedia.
Thus, it seems to me that all unverifiable claims about secret societies
are logically either
(A) untrue, in which case they should be deleted, or
(2) true, in which case they are original research and should be deleted.
Actually, the reason we should have a "Quick delete" -- if not a delete
on
sight -- ipolicy on any article about a secret society -- or anything
related to the Illuminati -- is very simple:
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Geoff