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

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:17:11 +0000, Steve Block
<steve.block at myrealbox.com> wrote:

>Wikipedia isn't the place for them to report that. 
>  We aren't a place for original research

Reporting the key signature of a score is not really OR, though.  It's
a trivial fact verified from a reliable source.  If there are
absolutely no secondary sources about the piece at all, then of course
we can't have an article, but if they exist and simply forget to
mention the key signature then there is no real problem reporting it
since any editor *can* cross-check it without specialist knowledge
(albeit with additional work).

Translating Mozart's comments to Leutgeb based on the original scores
of the horn concerti would be OR, though - they are virtually
unreadable :-)

Guy (JzG)
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