User:Spacepotato/Examples of original research in Wikipedia

This page documents a series of edits which appear to constitute misrepresentation of sources, or original research, as it is called in Wikipedia ideology. In these edits, the source mentions a certain process, device, invention, etc. which is used at a given time, and the editor claims that this is the first time the process, etc., was used, although this claim is not found in the source.

As well as being original research, the edits are factually incorrect, as explained below. Also, the same misinformation may be inserted into a number of different articles.

The 7 examples given here cover some 14 different edits, to 5 different articles. In reality however the problem is larger. It affects or has affected at least the following articles:

but it probably exists in many other articles as well.