[WikiEN-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Schools on en: (was Do Imisunderstand Wikipedia? On notability and encyclopedic merit.)

Thu May 19 02:46:47 UTC 2005

>From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>
>'No original research' is a useful idea but it's not a crowing
>achievement like NPOV, we'd be fools to follow it blindly, and I'm
>glad to see that we do not. Often the cost of finding a citation (if
>indeed one is available) for a particular point which is obvious to
>anyone who has studied the references, is just too great.

In my experience, it is far more often ignored because an editor wants to 
draw some original conclusions about something, and is unaware of the 
policy, unable to comprehend it, or simply doesn't care.  Currently the risk 
that Wikipedia will be damaged by "blindly following" the NOR policy is far 
less than the risk that it will be damaged by *not* following it.

Jay.