On 29/12/06, Steve Block
<steve.block(a)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.
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Ilmari Karonen