[WikiEN-l] Re: Example vs. Original research

[steve v]

For all concerned: I used the Flat Earth Society as an
extreme example -- not as a kind of important
precedent. The real issue is, as others have said,
that  NOR is a for the most part a guideline and not
an absolute rule, to apply to anything which hasn't
been checked over by a physicist or physician.

SV


--- Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/26/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>  
> > Without such a mechanism, we could end up with
> more footnotes than there
> > are sentences in many articles.  Just looking at
> [[en:Paris]] for the
> > moment, this is the first paragraph:
> > 
> > "Paris is the capital city of France, as well as
> the capital of the
> > Ile-de-France region, whose territory encompasses
> Paris and its
> > suburbs.  The city of Paris proper is also a
> departement, called Paris
> > departement (French: departement de Paris)."
> > 
> > These are facts that might be worth getting
> citations for:
> > [1] Paris is the capital city of France.
> > [2] Paris is the capital of the Ile-de-France
> region.
> > [3] The Ile-de-France region's territory
> encompasses Paris and its suburbs.
> > [4] The city of Paris proper is also a
> departement, called Paris
> > departement.
> > 
> > Presumably citations for these can be found in
> French law, and would be
> > useful to have somewhere---someone might
> conceivably actually want to
> > know exactly where it is specified officially that
> Paris is the capital
> > city of France.  But I'm not sure we'd want to
> present readers with a
> > barrage of footnotes for all these facts that they
> might take as fairly
> > obvious---by the time you got the end of the
> article we might be on
> > footnote #200.
> 
> The difference is that some people actively argue
> that the earth is
> not a sphere, whereas those who argue that Paris is
> not the capital of
> France so far have kept their activities secret.
> 
> If a fact is contentious, then it should be backed
> up with a cite.
> 
> -- 
> Peter in Canberra
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