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   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   On 2022-02-06, Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >> In the furtherance of their pathetic "Must Not be Invented Here Syndrome"   
   >> (obsessed with publishing only things regurgitated from elsewhere rather   
   >> than anything of independent value),he refuses to allow simple observations   
      
   If you don't understand why Wikipedia works as it does, perhaps you   
   should just not care about it.   
      
   The prohibition of primary research is of course irritating - I'm an   
   expert on quite a lot of (genuine technical) things, but I still can't   
   write on them other than by citing published work.   
   However, it does have an obvious purpose: if something is stated on   
   Wikipedia, you should be able to trace it to a reputable published   
   source, not some random loony on the Internet.   
   Those of who use Wikipidia professionally (I tell all my students that   
   it's a very valuable resource) appreciate that it doesn't allow   
   "primary research" - otherwise the articles on, say, NP-completeness   
   or Goedel incompleteness would be full of stuff by crackpots claiming   
   to have solved/refuted them.   
      
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