WRONG Not Long John Silver but more importantly your thesis is wrong as well My referencing two official government documents isn t original research Anyone can follow my sources and find the same things I used in my edit I not only provided links I provided page numbers and sections as well Original research is something that can t be verified such as if I were to post my statistical study on the effect of Hurricanes Ivan Jeanne Francis and Charley on the Atlantic Kingfish populations In the latter case you would have no access to my raw data and therefore could not verify my conclusions Once published I can link my study as a reference as it will then be available to all Capice Didn t you even read what you linked It clearly says the only way to verify that you are not doing original research is to cite sources who discuss material that is directly related to the article and to stick closely to what the sources say My quotes were verbatim excerpts of the official documents I even used Adobe s C P feature on the federal one available to all just one click away Not original