On 29/12/06, Steve Block <steve.block(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
zero 0000 wrote:
> Someone who can read music should be able to
report from
> a musical score that it is in E-flat, even though that requires
> specialist knowledge.
Agree with you. But Wikipedia isn't the place for
them to report that.
We aren't a place for original research. The place for them to report
that is in their criticism of the score published in some other source.
We summarise it. That's how it works.
That *is* summarising it. Summarising the obvious should not require
teaching J. Random Querulous the basics of your field because they
want a source for your observation that "the sky is blue" based on the
wavelength of the light from it tending to be more like 400nm than
700nm.
> What the policy *should* require
> (somehow) is that anyone who can read music will agree that
> the score is in E-flat. The fundamental skills of the field
> should be assumed, and the policy should reflect that, imo.
No, again that isn't right. We don't record
the truth, we summarise
sources. What we do is allow the reader to check we have summarised the
source accurately.
This may be the case in some extreme interpretation, but I really
don't see that it is in this one.
- d.