Actually the 'inclusionist' are usually harping on about deletion of things that are verifiable by several external sources. I have never seen the usual suspect object to something that genuinely cannot be verified externally. Mark
--- John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
Publish a book about it. If the society is interesting enough to be of note, sufficient pop culture should arise surrounding it to justify an article.
The incident you mention is indeed original rsearch
- that is why we
need an external source. Original research cannot be verified - that is why we need an external source. The inclusionists harp on it - "But it's VERIFIABLE! We gotta' keep it!" Without a source not from Wikipedia, this is not verifiable at all.
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])
Sean Barrett wrote:
I have recently noticed another form of what I
consider to be
"original research," and I'd like to see if the
consensus agrees with me.
The article [[The League of Distinguished
Gentlemen]] purports to
describe a secret society at Creighton University.
It clearly was
written by the secret society himself and is
currently listed for
deletion. A popular reason given in the votes for
deletion is
"unverifiable," the rebuttal to which is "you
can't verify it because
it's a /truly/ secret secret society!"
All of which is only mildly amusing, but did lead
me to contemplate
the possibility of a /real/ truly secret secret
society. Even if such
an Illuminatus really did exist, and someone
really were able to
penetrate it, it seems to me that the resulting
expos� would be
original research, and not appropriate for
Wikipedia.
Thus, it seems to me that all unverifiable claims
about secret
societies are logically either (A) untrue, in which case they should be deleted,
or
(2) true, in which case they are original research
and should be deleted.
Comments?
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