[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Bryan Derksen]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:36:11 -0600, Bryan Derksen
> <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> I don't see it as a good example, myself. The edit in question was
>> referenced with an appropriate and well-formatted external source
> 
> A student email directory?  In what way is that not original research?

Original research would have been if someone "pieced together" what
university she went to through indirect clues - for example finding one
source that says she lives in that city and another source that says
she's a student and concluding that that she therefore goes to that
_particular_ university.

In this case the reference is a primary source that says "these people
go to this university." A perfectly good reference to cite when saying
"this person goes to this university." That's hardly a creative act of
information synthesis.