Andrew Gray wrote:
On 29/12/06, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
Funny you discuss this. At http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taylor_Allderdice_High_School&... I've got someone asserting in the article that "a search of WorldCat reveals that as of 2006 Taylor Allderdice remains one of fewer than sixty high schools in the world to have its newspaper archived on microfilm in a major library." I agree this is original research, but can't find anyone to back me up. Fancy popping your head in and discussing the point?
And here we hit the problem with limited original research - bad interpretation. He's shown that "fewer than sixty high schools in the world are known to have...", not that "fewer than sixty high schools in the world have..." It's based on a false premise - that WorldCat is some kind of "grand global catalogue", which it isn't; it doesn't claim to be comprehensive, just large.
Yes, I'd say the operative word here isn't so much "original" as "logically unsound". You just can't get from here to there.