[WikiEN-l] Original research or common sense inferral?

[Phil Sandifer]

On Apr 2, 2007, at 1:18 PM, David Gerard wrote:

> On 02/04/07, Seraphim Blade <seraphimbladewikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In reply to Phil, as to how that guts NOR: The entire point of NOR is
>> that you do -not- use your own "editorial judgment" when writing an
>> article, you use information in reliable secondary sources. It also
>> helps to ensure that information is relevant-sometimes, something can
>> be technically true, but also irrelevant. I'd ask the same
>> question-why should we adopt the role of "first reporter"? If someone
>> wants to do that, isn't that what Wikinews is for?
>
>
> This appears to be the sort of obsession with replacing editorial
> judgement with rules that makes Wikipedia into a red tape obstacle
> course.
>
> Unfortunately, good sense and quality cannot in fact be Taylorised.

Or, if you dislike my previous response, David's does just as well. ;)

-Phil