DISQUS

Alun Salt: Wikipedia and Me and a few other people

  • Tony Keen · 3 years ago
    Yeah. Isee what you mean. I wouldn't want to get heavily involved in controversial issues. Most of what I've done myself is to correct a number of references to 'amphitheatres' when the buildings are actually theatres. I have just doen some rewriting of various articles relating to Lucius Artorius Castus. I haven't deleted the theories put forward there, but nI've pointed out that many of them don't actually have any evidence to back them up. (Of course, now someone will produce the evidence that I haven't been able to find.)
  • Ron Zeno · 3 years ago
    NPOV is why charlatans prosper. It's hard enough to make the case against it when reporting science, as Mooney does in http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/6/mooney-science.... It's far harder when the standards of evidence, logic, and ethics aren't so clear cut.
  • Ed Kohler · 3 years ago
    NPOV seems like one of the trickiest issues to enforce. They obviously want people who are knowledgable about a subject to contribute, but anyone who's really knowledgable about something will probably have some level of passion about the issue based on their experience that may draw it in some direction other than dryly neutral.

    I really hope neutrality doesn't mean balancing the opinions of nut jobs with facts.