[WikiEN-l] The boundaries of OR (contd)
The Cunctator
cunctator at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 15:35:04 UTC 2006
On 12/20/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 3. Sarah points out the following text from WP:NOR :
> > "anyone--without specialist knowledge--who reads the
> > primary source should be able to verify that the Wikipedia
> > passage agrees with the primary source. Any interpretation
> > of primary source material requires a secondary source."
> > That seems to be broken. Examples of specialist knowledge
> > which might be required are the ability to read a foreign
> > language and the ability to understand mathematical notation.
> >
> > Someone who can read music should be able to report from
> > a musical score that it is in E-flat, even though that requires
> > specialist knowledge. What the policy *should* require
> > (somehow) is that anyone who can read music will agree that
> > the score is in E-flat. The fundamental skills of the field
> > should be assumed, and the policy should reflect that, imo.
In all seriousness, I think the policy should be that any special knowledge
needed to understand the article should be included somewhere in Wikipedia.
For example, the above knowledge is included at [[key signature]] and at
[[E-flat major]].
Thus if the example article read
"The [[key (music)|key]] of the score is [[E-flat major]]<ref>[link to
score]</ref>..."
Any person with the knowledge contained at those links would be able to
understand the reference.
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