16 Feb
2025
16 Feb
'25
10:45 a.m.
You're right that "original research"
doesn't go into Wikipedia. But "major mainstream outlet" is not required.
For example, the Electrologica X1 article cites sources for its content, most of which are
rather obscure publications such as tech reports in the CWI archives. The point is that
it has to be published elsewhere.
On the other hand, site policy has a long list of what publishers they'll
accept and not accept. Amateur and hobbyist postings to blogs, for example, are
not accepted, even if it's verifiable or reproducible or otherwise high quality.
I admit to a bit of pique here: I don't even bother updating Wikipedia articles
anymore because they'll always get reverted by someone with less of a life than
me for any number of specious reasons.
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