[WikiEN-l] A definite version of WP:CRYSTAL

[Andrew Gray]

2008/11/13 Jay Litwyn <brewhaha at edmc.net>:

> Since I believe in global warming and I see a contest between it and
> economics, I see a very hot dispute that really should be off-loaded. There
> are so many other places for volatile information to go. In other words, if
> someone did [[global warming]], I think they should expect to end up on
> another site, unless the article is restricted to history.

I think this is going to end in tears - where do we draw the line? Do
we just not talk about global warming; do we talk about it as
something that is believed to have happened up to and including last
week; do we talk about it and imply it may continue to happen; do we
talk about it in general terms in the future but give no numbers?

I'm not sure this approach is helpful; it tries to deal with a small
set of specific (percieved) problems by applying a draconian general
rule. I mean, take cosmology. We'd be a shoddy encyclopedia if we
didn't talk about the [[heat death of the universe]], a very
well-known concept... but it's entirely hypothetical, it exists as a
paper theory with some substantiating numbers, and it's several
billion years ahead.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk