[WikiEN-l] The boundaries of OR

[James Hare]

Original Research is also totally new ideas or concepts not published
anywhere else.

On 12/17/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/17/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OR is when you go out and test the evidence yourself. Finding sources to
> > corroborate a point is called research, not original research.
>
> No. In Wikipedia, OR is when you do the interpretation of evidence
> yourself. We should simplify the OR rule to make this clearer:
> "Wikipedians are dumb. We cannot interpret, only repeat."
>
> Steve
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