While off the current topic, I've always wondered, are interview that a Wikipedia editor conducted included in the realm of "original research"?
For example, I occasionally write a column on Family Entertainment for Suite101.com. I've interviewed people like Canadian TV show producer/creator/writer Blair Peters. While there no article yet on Studio B or him, is the information I found out in the interview "original"?
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Nicholas Moreau (beaubeaver@yahoo.co.uk) [041210 07:40]:
While off the current topic, I've always wondered, are interview that a Wikipedia editor conducted included in the realm of "original research"? For example, I occasionally write a column on Family Entertainment for Suite101.com. I've interviewed people like Canadian TV show producer/creator/writer Blair Peters. While there no article yet on Studio B or him, is the information I found out in the interview "original"?
Good question. The conservative choice would be not to put in one's own research in this manner ...
(I have had to consider this problem with wanting to write about Australian '80s indie rock. Trouble is, I'm one of the authoritative sources. Do I just not write about the stuff I'm the specialist in? Do I write about it and link to interviews I wrote and published? Should I just put a list of possible articles and the source I would list as reference and leave others to maybe write the articles? That last would satisfy propriety, but it has a certain PITA factor.)
- d.
Don't worry about it. The material they are after is in other areas, like idiosyntric definitions of truth, novel political and scientific theories, etc.
Fred
From: David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:00:29 +1100 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Original research
Nicholas Moreau (beaubeaver@yahoo.co.uk) [041210 07:40]:
While off the current topic, I've always wondered, are interview that a Wikipedia editor conducted included in the realm of "original research"? For example, I occasionally write a column on Family Entertainment for Suite101.com. I've interviewed people like Canadian TV show producer/creator/writer Blair Peters. While there no article yet on Studio B or him, is the information I found out in the interview "original"?
Good question. The conservative choice would be not to put in one's own research in this manner ...
(I have had to consider this problem with wanting to write about Australian '80s indie rock. Trouble is, I'm one of the authoritative sources. Do I just not write about the stuff I'm the specialist in? Do I write about it and link to interviews I wrote and published? Should I just put a list of possible articles and the source I would list as reference and leave others to maybe write the articles? That last would satisfy propriety, but it has a certain PITA factor.)
- d.
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No, what he said, in response to your questions, is not. What would be original is theorizing on your part about what it all means.
Fred
From: Nicholas Moreau beaubeaver@yahoo.co.uk Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:25:23 +0000 (GMT) To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Original research
While off the current topic, I've always wondered, are interview that a Wikipedia editor conducted included in the realm of "original research"?
For example, I occasionally write a column on Family Entertainment for Suite101.com. I've interviewed people like Canadian TV show producer/creator/writer Blair Peters. While there no article yet on Studio B or him, is the information I found out in the interview "original"?
Zanimum
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