On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:45:25 +0100, you wrote:
Is undetected original research a big problem in
practice?
It is in biographies, for sure.
Is this
policy going to have any effect on undetected original research?
Yes. It gives unambiguous grounds for removing things which cannot be
verified from reliable secondary sources (Wikipedia is not a publisher
of first instance) and makes it less easy for people to use Wikipedia
as a soapbox. It ends sterile edit wars over the insertion of
personal opinion.
I don't see why it's a problem, myself. It's not as if it's a new
thing. Sure most things don't actually cite a source, but most of
them *could* cite a source if necessary. It's the ones that can't
which are a problem.
Guy (JzG)
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