[WikiEN-l] Frustrated

[Guettarda]

On 2/19/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Christiano Moreschi wrote:
>
> > So, it might be worth seeing whether something similar could work with
> > this List of Tall Men. Is this at al possible?
> >
> > Alternatively, something to think about might be a list of World
> > Record Holders for height, or something similar. But the current
> > arbitrary definition of x.y metres is not really acceptable. Arbitrary
> > definitions are original research.
>
> Definitions aren't research at all, and all definitions are arbitrary.
> Let's avoid expanding the idea of original research beyond what it was
> intended to do.


Creating "new knowledge" is OR.  While a definition cannot, in and of itself
be OR, using coming up with a new definition for "tall" (2.5-3 sd + 6 cm) is
OR, all the more so when it applies a modified paediatric definition of
"tall" to adults.