Ken Arromdee wrote:
Well, a common, similar, case is popular culture articles in general, but most of them have a loophole: a movie, book, etc. is itself a source for its own content. Using a pinball machine in a similar way is, of course, original research, but it's also an excellent example of how Ignore All Rules applies to anything, even original research.
As much as I strongly support IAR, I also recognize that there are places where its use is inappropriate. It's really a safety valve to be used when the sane application of rules produces nonsensical solutions.
The main problem you'll face is rules-lawyer vandals, who pop into random articles to delete all original research, then leave.
This kind of vandal is not that different from other common vandals. In the interest of NPOV ( ;-) ) they need to be given credit for one thing: leaving.
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