However in a following paragraph WP OR states Wikipedia No original research NOR is one of three content policies The others are Wikipedia Neutral point of view NPOV and Wikipedia Verifiability V Jointly these policies determine the type and quality of material that is acceptable in articles As you can see I m right in using original research in the discussion page because NOR applies only to the material included in the articles The discussions do not form part of the Wikipedia contents even if Wikipedia users have full access to them By the way my contention that Muir s article is not scholarly is based on the HNN s FAQs which declare the journal not to be scholarly Therefore it s not original research