Berto 'd Sera wrote:
Seriously, how would you manage? Do we call up the mobs to scream and swear as we did before, or do we nominate 7 Valencian and 7 Catalan Knights and make it a Royal Tournament? That's all the choice you're given, you know?
You EITHER choose an external reference OR choose yourself.
If you're deferring to an external authority to avoid conflict, or to reduce workload, then that's fine. Just don't say you're doing it because you want to follow the "no original research" policy. Most Wikipedia policies are common sense. NOR is probably the only one which would be disasterous if it were generalised to life outside Wikipedia.
-- Tim Starling