FORwiki:No Original Research
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No Original Research is a FORwiki policy that governs content development in articles from the portal Clarifications.
What FORwiki articles are not
The Foresight Wiki does not publish original research or original thought on the fundamentals of Future Studies & Foresight. The Foresight Wiki articles are not the place to publish personal opinions, arguments, or conclusions. There is a robust set of academic journals, with reliable peer-review mechanisms, which are hosting exactly this type of papers; a short list includes Futures, Foresight, International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Futura, etc.. But FORwiki articles from the Clarifications portal should not include unpublished arguments, speculation, ideas, or unpublished synthesis of published material. Transgressing this policy may lead to the deletion of the article.
The issue of avoiding original research is closely linked to the problem of citing dependable sources. This is why No Original Research and the General Guide for Publishing FORwiki Content are interlinked, and should not be interpreted in isolation from one another.
Accepted research
The only type of research that is encouraged by the Foresight Wiki is "source-based research" which consists of collecting and organizing material from existing sources. The content of a FORwiki article from the Clarifications portal should accurately reflect the original sources. It is not acceptable to use material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources. But editors may summarize or rephrase a source without changing its meaning or implication – this is good editing. Best practice is to write articles by researching the most reliable sources on the topic and summarizing what they say in your own words within separate sections of a FORwiki article from the Clarifications portal.