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

[Steve Block]

zero 0000 wrote:

>   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.

Agree with you.  But Wikipedia isn't the place for them to report that. 
  We aren't a place for original research.  The place for them to report 
that is in their criticism of the score published in some other source. 
  We summarise it.  That's how it works.

>  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.

No, again that isn't right.  We don't record the truth, we summarise 
sources.  What we do is allow the reader to check we have summarised the 
source accurately.


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