Talk:General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes

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Substantial Trimming of Article

As you can see, I've slashed the "Terms of the act" section down to a single sentence, and marked my own edit with an "original research" tag. The problem is that both the original author of this article and myself are summarizing, and consequently interpreting, the primary document. Per Wikipedia's rules about original research, we should not be doing so--we need to rely on what secondary sources have said about the act. Summaries of primary documents can be acceptable, but still need to be accompanied by secondary sources. So, while I know I haven't actually fixed the OR problem, my feeling is that less OR is better than more. In any event, the previous text was essentially impossible to read--There is no need for a sentence on every single article in the act; our goal is to provide an encyclopedic understanding of the Act, not a complete rehashing of it. Unfortunately, I do not have access to any scholarly sources that could serve as secondary sources for this article (as I'm not even in a country where I can access a library with relevant information in English). I hope that the original author does or can do so, as I do think this should be expanded, following proper NOR and RS rules. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:33, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]