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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Seraphim Blade [mailto:seraphimbladewikipedia at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 11:33 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Original research or common sense inferral?
>
>Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>>It would be common sense to adopt this position. I support it. Why
>should be deny users the right to add what they know? Published or
>not?
>
>Go look at your Armenia-Azerbaijan arbitration case for your answer.
>(Or for that matter, most arbitration cases.) All those editors, every
>one of them, are -adding what they know-. And I guarantee you, they
>KNOW it, you could never convince one of them that everything they're
>writing is not 100% true and factual. That's why we should stick to
>what we can verify, not what we know.
>
>Seraphimblade

You're comparing apples and oranges. If I say that Saguache Creek is a tributary of San Luis Creek in the Closed Basin of the San Luis Valley, that is one thing, saying that the Azerbaijanis desecrated an ancient Armenian graveyard, is quite another. One is a mere fact, the other is a contested matter.

I guess I should say: It would be common sense to adopt this position. I support it. Why
should we deny users the right to add uncontroversial facts that they know? Published or not?

Fred