On 30/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(e.g. I'm an ardent and hard-working critic and
opponent of
Scientology, but try to edit those articles for the good of the
encyclopedia and happily acknowledge that the Scientologist editors on
them have brought lots of them to better NPOV, even those whose edits
tend not to stand. I'm really pleased on the whole with our articles
on the subject.)
I try to do the same in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Unfortunately we haven't
got any really constructive input from Israeli scientologists,
although it would be interesting. We mostly get blanking of the parts
about "space opera" and vague complaints of copyright violations from
someone who called herself SCN spokesperson.
I oppose SCN, but i researched it a lot on the Internet I tried to do
my best to write a neutral encyclopedia article. Apparently it was so
neutral, that a couple of editors accused me of being a stealth
scientologist! They believed that an encyclopedia must be against SCN,
while i claimed that an encyclopedia needs to be neutral. I won, more
or less. :)
The moral of the story: a POV which is unsuitable for an encyclopedia
can manifest itself not only in the camps of religious and nationalist
fanatics, but also among people who glorify science, skepticism and
rationality too strongly.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni
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