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

[Steve Block]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 29/12/06, Steve Block <steve.block at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> That *is* summarising it. Summarising the obvious should not require
> teaching J. Random Querulous the basics of your field because they
> want a source for your observation that "the sky is blue" based on the
> wavelength of the light from it tending to be more like 400nm than
> 700nm.

Yeah, you're probably right.  Trying to keep comic book articles free of 
OR has probably heightened my senses as to what it is.



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