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There are presumably objective pieces of information in such reports that do not require interpretation before they can be used - for example if an FBI report into a child porn ring stated the X people were involved in the porn ring, Y number of children were abused, Z million dollars were involved, then there is surely no original research involved in using that information in a Wikipedia article about the child porn ring and citing the FBI report?
Cynical
slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/7/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a problem: what happens when the contents of an article can only be verified by relying on sources which are illegal to view?
Hi Stephen, the article should cite third-party sources about the contents of the material. If Wikipedians have to look at the material themselves, that constitutes original research, because it would involve them relying on their own interpretations of it. If there are no third-party descriptions, then the material shouldn't be described in our article about it.
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