[WikiEN-l] Original research or common sense inferral?

[David Gerard]

On 02/04/07, Seraphim Blade <seraphimbladewikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> In reply to Phil, as to how that guts NOR: The entire point of NOR is
> that you do -not- use your own "editorial judgment" when writing an
> article, you use information in reliable secondary sources. It also
> helps to ensure that information is relevant-sometimes, something can
> be technically true, but also irrelevant. I'd ask the same
> question-why should we adopt the role of "first reporter"? If someone
> wants to do that, isn't that what Wikinews is for?


This appears to be the sort of obsession with replacing editorial
judgement with rules that makes Wikipedia into a red tape obstacle
course.

Unfortunately, good sense and quality cannot in fact be Taylorised.


- d.