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> That's probably something to do with Wikipedia's editing guidelines these days. They have a rule against using primary research citations.

Jeez. I haven't paid much attention, but every time I hear something about Wikipedia's editing guidelines, they're getting it horribly wrong.

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Sorry for off topic but it is a difficult topic and goes beyond Wikipedia. I read on hacker news the complaints that many (even peer reviewed) studies are never reproduced because there is no incentive to reproduce/verify someone else's work. Also, I've read that the "sugar lobby" may have been behind previous studies linking eating fatty food with obesity. Given these facts, how do we create guidelines that allow original research?

I had to look that up. As unusual as that rule sounds at the first glance, they do explain the reasons behind it quite well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Origin...

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