On 26/05/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Consider, for a moment, this edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Addams_Family_%28pinball%29&am...
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