Earle Martin wrote:
What's the best procedure to follow when
encountering an article like
[[Bugaboo Spire]]? It doesn't seem to be copied copyrighted material,
but more likely original research, and at the very least a how-to
guide[1] for climbing certain mountains. Simply chopping the material
in question out seems a little brutal.
All but the most obscure or recent climbs have an authoritative climbing
guidebook that is the right source for details of route descriptions -
you won't find original research on WP unless first-ascenders start
reporting their adventures here rather than in the climbing journals.
The prescriptive rather than descriptive style is typical for routes,
descriptive style tends to be clumsy. Given that WP is a compendium and
not the whole library, I think the right approach is to prune each route
down to general description and highlights, and refer readers to the
climbing guidebook for full details - climbers printing out WP articles
to take along seems just as undesirable as surgeons printing out
articles on their way into the OR... :-)
Stan