the problem comes when you say the game works one way, and I try it
and think it works a different way. we have no way to resolve this
except to discard both findings. DGG
On 5/27/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/27/07, Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Original research is when you *synthesize*
multiple sources or ideas
together and then edit that into the Wikipedia. In this case there's
ultimately only one source, the game itself.
You can do original research with one source if you publish new
theories about it, for instance.
In the case of a video game or pinball table or the like, I don't
think checking with an actual instance of the game is original
research for simple, easily confirmed facts.
However, doing e.g. a statistical analysis of the scoring, or
attempting to work out the logic employed by a computer-controlled
opponent in a video came, are both good examples of original research.
So is adding your original idea of how to beat the game.
-Matt
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