[WikiEN-l] Nationality on the lead of articles

[Ray Saintonge]

On 03/31/11 12:44 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> For example, I've been looking at another article, Astrology, where half
> a dozen astrology advocates have been banned. Looking at their editing,
> all the attention was on the presence or absence of the label,
> "pseudoscience", supposedly based on an arbitration committee ruling.

"Pseudoscience" is one of those labels that exists for the sole purpose 
of being tendentious. A perfectly good and neutral article can be 
written about astrology without resorting to that word. It would make 
clear that there is considerable doubt about the subject's validity 
without leaving the impression that the article is nagging about it.

> So, instead of working on the article, and adding something about
> astrology, there has been a sterile POV conflict. Meanwhile the article
> is piss poor with one of the POV warriors, now he's gotten rid of the
> opposition, re-writing it and making it even worse.

It has been a long time since I even looked at the article. I have since 
graduated to become a grumpy old man. The presence of idiotic POV 
pushers on both sides of the argument means it's less strenuous to keep 
the article in a perpetual state of error.

> So big fight over nothing, while substantial work remains undone.
>
> "WikiProject Rational Skepticism High-importance)" Really?
>
It's the kind of true-believer syndrome that turns Rational Skepticism 
into a religious cult.

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