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G'day Ray, G'day Sascha<br><br>
At 01:54 AM 2/12/03 -0800, Ray Saintonge wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Sascha Noyes wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>This person needs a stern talking
to. </blockquote>From his user page:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>under "modified
pages"<br>
"Alternative medicine - I cleaned up this article. I removed the
anti-bias and made it pro-alternative medicine."<br><br>
under "Interests"<br>
"To get important natural health related information and definitions
in an Internet accessible encyclopedia / dictionary."<br><br>
It is clear that /his/her/its purpose is to inject their POV and remove
that of others.</blockquote>So he's trying to put his own spin on
things. How is that so different from what most Wikipedians are
trying to accomplish? Announcing areas of interest is pretty
normal. <br><br>
Ec</blockquote><br>
Having had a quick look at the article history, I'd have to agree with
Sascha.<br><br>
The first quote about making it pro alternative medicine was exactly what
this user did. The worst of it has already been removed. I haven't looked
to see whether his claim of anti alternative medicine POV in what he
found there is true, but what he left was certainly pro alternative
medicine POV, it read just like a pamphlet you might pick up in a
practitioner's waiting room.<br><br>
But there have been no reversion wars so far that I can see, despite some
corrections to the worst of his rhetoric. So it's possible that he will
quickly get the idea of NPOV and even accept it. If he's as heavily
involved in alternative medicine as I suspect, he may be a very good
source of information on the subject.<br><br>
I expect some Wikipedians regard alternative medicine as all gospel, and
others regard it as all quackery. So to come up with a generally accepted
NPOV will be quite a challenge, but IMO not an impossibility.<br><br>
Andrew A <br><br>
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