[WikiEN-l] Original research: our secret pleasure?

[Ian Woollard]

On 26/05/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> Consider, for a moment, this edit:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Addams_Family_%28pinball%29&diff=133649872&oldid=130354055
>
> It is a minor modification to our description of "The Addams Family"
> pinball machine. Because I happen to own one of those machines, I know
> that this edit is partly right but almost certainly partly wrong.
> However, I haven't played it much lately, so my first instinct was to
> commit the grievous sin of original research by playing a few games.

I don't think that doing that is original research any more that
opening up a referenced hardback book to check is original research.
Either the game does that, or it doesn't that's *not* an original
research.

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.

> William

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