Berto 'd Sera wrote:
Seriously, how would you manage? Do we call up the
mobs to scream and swear
as we did before, or do we nominate 7 Valencian and 7 Catalan Knights and
make it a Royal Tournament? That's all the choice you're given, you know?
You EITHER
choose an external reference
OR
choose yourself.
If you're deferring to an external authority to avoid conflict, or to
reduce workload, then that's fine. Just don't say you're doing it because
you want to follow the "no original research" policy. Most Wikipedia
policies are common sense. NOR is probably the only one which would be
disasterous if it were generalised to life outside Wikipedia.
-- Tim Starling