On 3/21/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
As far as I can tell, merging RS and the *examples* from NOR and V into an attribution policy would have real merit, but merging OR dilutes NOR by implying that we can perform original research as long as we cite the primary sources properly - it dilutes the prohibition on original syntheses and on having articles for which no secondary sources exist. Under the attribution policy we would, I think, have much less of a defence against a lot of pseudoscience pushers.
That's a good way of putting it. The concepts themselves need their own pages simply to demonstrate that they are independent, albeit related, concepts. But gathering all of the advice and examples together makes eminent sense.