[WikiEN-l] original research

Wed Dec 8 00:25:05 UTC 2004

You can document what other people have said about
these things (moon hoax, reptilian humanoids, flat
earth etc) as long as it is in the context of
reporting what someone has claimed.
Mark

--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> Sean Barrett wrote:
> 
> > 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
> exposé 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.
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> It's a bit like talking about conspiracy theories,
> or the cabal that 
> controls Wikipedia. :-)
> 
> Ec
> 
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