"Stephen Bain" wrote
On 12/17/06, zero 0000 <nought_0000(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
Ok, so now I am itching to write in Wikipedia
something like: "The consensus amongst legal
scholars is that opinion A is correct" (or similar),
with a footnote stating the evidence.
Can I do that? My sources were the best that exist,
and everything I did can be verified easily by anyone
with a good library. On the other hand, I have drawn
my own conclusions from these observations so
maybe I'm afoul of the No Original Research policy.
Of course that's ok.
I think it's OK, too. We are suppoed to summarise existing knowledge: so NOR
shouldn't take away the tool of giving an accurate precis. One can tweak the wording,
so that 'most opinions follow that of X in [cite]' is perhaps better than
'consensus'. But I think many practical cases are like this, with a slight change
of words helping out the look.
Charles
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