From: Ray
Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
Sean Barrett wrote:
Ray Saintonge stated for the record:
If you use the old Soviet records somebody is
bound to bring up the
"No original research" rule.
Why are old Soviet records "original research" while old US records
(NVR, DANFS, &c.) are okay?
I'm not saying that they are, just that somebody is bound to try to
make that point.
Sounds like another strawman. Original research is not finding
obscure sources and citing them, but rather drawing original
conclusions. The former is nothing like the latter, unless one is
deliberately intent on denigrating the Original Research policy by
misrepresenting it.