Peter Jacobi wrote:
"Stephen Bain" stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
The articles on last year's London bombings are also good examples. [[2006 transatlantic aircraft plot]], within a few hours after the story broke, was just about the best source available.
If a Wikipedia article is "the best source available", it has become original research.
I don't think that's true at all. The entire point of Wikipedia is to produce a good reference that didn't previously exist. We take the huge amount of information out there and produce high-quality, reliable, referenced summaries. If we do that, we become the best reference on a number of things---not because we're conducting original research, but because we've summarized widely-spread information into a readable summary all in one place.
-Mark