[WikiEN-l] The boundaries of OR (contd)

[Sarah]

On 12/21/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No, you absolutely cannot do that, for reasons eloquently stated
> > elsewhere. The claim that it is not in the Cornell University Library
> > is a novel conclusion based on your own original research; this seems
> > so trivially obvious to me that it astonishes me that others would
> > claim otherwise. You might as well promote a novel claim in physics,
> > and point people to the calculations you have made to prove your
> > theory. If a reliable source says "the book is not found in the
> > Cornell University Library", then quote them. Otherwise, move on.
>
> What's novel about "It doesn't appear on the such results, therefore
> it isn't in the library"? Seems like an obvious conclusion to me...
> (might not be 100% reliable, depending on search terms, accuracy of
> the library's index, etc, but that doesn't make it novel).

You may have made a mistake. Or it may be in the library but not in
the catalogue, or vice versa. That you conducted the search yourself
makes publication of your results OR. We publish the mistakes of
reliable sources, not of Wikipedians. :-)