On 6/6/05, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Sean Barrett wrote:
Why are old Soviet records "original research" while old US records (NVR, DANFS, &c.) are okay?
I'm not saying that they are, just that somebody is bound to try to make that point.
It disturbs me that "No original research", originally intended to prevent crackpot theories with no following being pushed on Wikipedia, is starting to mutate into something quite different.
"Cite your sources" is fine. "Provide your sources," though, is not. On many obscure topics, the sources WILL be difficult to locate. Any attempt to turn this requirement into having to provide sources that can be requested from the average library or online will remove a large number of very credible but obscure sources - specialist publications, limited circulation journals, and many other documents.
-Matt (User:Morven)