[WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia to out pseudonymous Erwin James, Guardian writ...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/23/2009 7:14:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
oldakquill at gmail.com writes:

At the  time, the basis of identifying
him was putting known facts about the  pseudonymous author (date of
imprisonment, French Foreign Legion  membership), against an old
newspaper article containing similar details  about a named man who had
committed a crime. Since no independent  connection had been made
between the pseudonym and his legal name, it did  constitute original
research. It is only now that Erwin James has  identified himself in a
national newspaper that it no longer constitutes  original research.>>



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Using sources to establish things of this sort, is not the creation of a  
source.
Original research involves the creation of a source, not already  present.
 
Connecting the dots, using sources, *can be* but is not necessarily  
original research.