User talk:ReaderofthePack/Academic papers vs Wikipedia articles

About the off-topic materials
We had a discussion abot this subject in Estonian wiki (Article about Luis Mena). The decision was that though in final form there should be no off-topic explanations, in the case of the less-covered subjects (more of them in Estonian wiki, less common in English wiki some additional explanation is advisable. Academic articles have to be written in their final form, but it is not true about wikipedia articles, so they can be written in more flexible way - according to the needs. - Melilac (talk) 07:48, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
 * That's kind of the point of this - academic papers are written in an entirely different format than Wikipedia articles. They're more flexible in some ways but more rigid in others. For example, you can put original research in academic papers without a source that explicitly backs up the claim but not in Wikipedia articles. IE, you could write an academic paper that asserts that Jailhouse Rock is representative of Elvis Presley's hidden bisexuality (based solely on your reading of the song), but you cannot put this into a Wikipedia article without a RS that explicitly states this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:30, 25 June 2016 (UTC)