On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
You are making these decisions, and they are part-and-parcel of "editing" they are not "original research" because you are not *creating* new "statements-of-fact". Instead you are summarizing other people's statements into a much smaller space.
I'm well aware that they're not original research; however, I don't consider a spoiler warning to be original research either. I'm more wondering if anyone thinks that spoiler warnings are original research but other types of editing-based comments aren't, and if so, how this can be justified.