General Semantics in relation to the Internet: “The Map is not the territory!”
General semantics is about the meaning of meaning.
In this case, the Internet is the “map,” reality is the “Territory.”
That is what these bozo editors fail to grasp.
Somebody, somewhere, had to do the original grunt research to post it, publish it, somewhere on the internet which was the original purpose of Wikipedia. Not everything is yet digitized and on the Internet. Some data, like this Benson, Arizona, city resolution will never be put on the internet unless someone like you has the time and interest to do the “original research,” ferret it out, and puts it there. Otherwise it will remain in a dusty, dead tree file drawer until it’s someday thrown out in a general purge of old files by an ignorant clerk, or gets destroyed in a fire or other catastrophe, or is just abandoned.
They’re so proud of themselves, policing “original research.” Apparently a cardinal sin. I was going to repudiate this crap with examples of original research all over WP, but I didn’t want to jeopardize countless articles from people who actually give a damn about informing a reader about the facts.
I wrote this entire segment when I was doing extensive research on Alaska, but somehow managed to get it through despite it all being — you guessed it — MY “original research.” The only thing changed since I composed it in July 2018 was the title of the section...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillingham,_Alaska#Placenames
This bit took me months of research to properly compile, assess, assimilate, synthesize and then write. But, hey, they just don’t seem to want quality research and they reminded me how I was pestering “busy and productive editors” with my Arizona edits.