[Wikipedia-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee Seeking Comment

Mon Jun 6 20:06:32 UTC 2005

Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell at gmail.com) [050607 04:28]:

> A open invitation to original research would be a bad thing... but at
> the same time the prohibition against it denies the ability to print
> common sense to those in a field... Despite the handwaving claims to
> the contrary, it can be quite difficult (measured against the value of
> including the text) to find a citation for something that is common
> sense in a given field but not necessarily outside it.  Fortunately,
> at least on en, we look the other way on original research unless
> there is a dispute.

The main "handwaving claims" have been that this is in fact a real problem.
Whenever the topic's come up, I've asked for an example where this has been
a problem, including in response to your emails to the list claiming it.
Neither you nor anyone else have provided one.

- d.