On 04/04/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
By getting them published somewhere. Unpublished true facts are original research by the generally accepted Wikipedia definition.
So if there were an article about, say, my grandfather, and I edited it to add something that was true (say, that he was in the RAF during the war) but unpublished, this information is not suitable for inclusion? (Surely notability does not imply that all relevant facts on a topic have been published.)
Anyway, I was under the impression that "original research" was taking facts A, B, and C about topic X and concluding N. In the case that I am following up, I've asked Z, an authority on X, if A is true, and they have confirmed that it is. But according to your definition, this proven fact A must float in limbo because it is unpublished. That doesn't feel right.