[WikiEN-l] Original research

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Vogeler [mailto:wvogeler at cox.net]
>Sent: Friday, February 9, 2007 08:04 PM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [WikiEN-l]  Original research
>
>Hi Jimmy:
>
>As a new user at Wikipedia, I created a journal for Amateur Astronomy at Academic Publishing Wiki. I was encouraged by the project because it is a forum for original research in a Wiki environment.
>
>I then linked from Wikipedia articles to Academic Publishing Wiki and the journal I created there, but I was reprimanded by Wiki editors who said that I had violated policies against promoting websites and spamming. I tried to reason with the editors about it, but they unanimously concluded that it is against Wikipedia policy to allow links to Academic Publishing Wiki.
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>I invite you to review the debate at my discussion page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wvogeler. If you feel so inclined, I would appreciate your thoughts on the subject. Thank you.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>WVogeler

For some reason the link to his user talk page doesn't work. But there is such a user. He carried on an extensive dialog with user Vsmith. Follow the link back and try user contributions and you can access his talk page. The site he speaks of is on Wikia at

http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Amateur_Astronomy

and is a part of

http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

These sites are transparently dedicated to original research.

You can contact Jimmy at jwales at wikia.com

This debate is not new and it is well settled that original research cannot be published on Wikipedia, or even considered a reliable source if it is not published in a peer reviewed source.

Please see Wikipedia:No original research

Fred