On 7/21/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Anthony wrote:
Wikipedians shouldn't be the ones doing the research, Wikipedians should be making an article which organizes the research done by others.
NOR policy appears to explicitly disagree with this statement. It reads, in part:
"Original research that creates primary sources is not allowed. However, research that consists of collecting and organizing information from existing primary and/or secondary sources is, of course, strongly encouraged. All articles on Wikipedia should be based on information collected from published primary and secondary sources. This is not "original research"; it is "source-based research", and it is fundamental to writing an encyclopedia."
You may make other arguments for why it's not appropriate to include a detailed synopsis in some particular article or another, but as far as I can see one based on NOR is simply not valid.
You are misreading NOR. Watching a TV show and then writing about it creates a primary source.
Anthony