On 4/9/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 09/04/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
You are describing original research. Putting
together information you
have gathered from various sources and creating a sort of
biography. But it
is a pseudobiography, without substantial reference to the person described,
except as they have received incidental media coverage. A golem you yourself
have breathed life into.
Compiling an article from multiple sources is not original research.
I don't see why compiling an article from multiple sources would be original
research. It's actually good to do it. It means you've verified your info
from more than one source. Original research is when you interpret
information and draw conclusion from it, which I didn't do.
Yes, compiling an article from multiple sources is fundamental to
article writing. Compiling from a single source tends to be
plagiarism.
If we were to adopt Fred's definition of "original research", we'd
have to delete every article on Wikipedia that isn't plagiarised or
made up.
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Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)