[WikiEN-l] No personal original research policy

Robert rkscience100 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 29 19:57:22 UTC 2004


Recently someone has been searching for essays I have
written outside of Wikipedia, and has been trying to get
people to discuss them on a Talk page for a Wikipedia
article. I let this person know that Wikipedia is a project
to build a serious encyclopedia, and that Wikipedia does
not incorporate the personal ideas of people who happen to
contribute to it (even mine!) It is a longstanding policy
that Wikipedia does not accept personal original research.

However, this person has ignored this policy, and again
used a Wikipedia talk page to criticise and discuss a
personal essay of mine, which (a) is off-topic for the
specific article, (b) about personal original research, and
(c) being done to distract others from working on the
actual article itself.

I have removed the off-topic discussions about
non-allowable personal original research, but I am afraid
that they may be re-instated, with yet more policy
violations. Any suggestions?


Robert (RK)



		
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