What you forget is that a person who knows that the
magazine had a
previous incarnation should be working toward NPOV by expanding the
article to let us know about that previous life instead of deleting the
article
I would agree. But that's not what was going on here. This was an article
that covered one very small portion of the magazine's history, after a
particularily interesting event. Don't get me wrong, I find the whole story
quite facinating, it seems to involve an editor essentially hijaking an
existing mechanism in order to radically change direction of the paper in
order to print a series on Velikovsky. THAT is definitely worth writing
about.
But that's _not_ what the article was about. The article basically ignored
all of the history and simply talked about articles supporting Velikovsky.
That belongs in an article on Velikovsky, not in an article on the magazine.
In fact, the history _is_ already covered anyway.
It is sufficient to express that Velikovsky's ideas
are significantly at
odds with the mainstream.
Which the article failed to do.
A few discretely placed references will
be enough to convince the thoughtful reader.
I think we need to be a little more obvious than that. My kid reads the
wikipedia, she's six. She's going to need a lot more help than "A few
discretely placed references".
At one time Velikovsky's
books were very popular, and that is a fact that cannot be ignored.
*sigh* Come on Ray, I expect better than this... only a few sentances later
you compain:
This suggests that you would make contemporary
popularity a major
criterion for deciding what to review.
Verifiability in no way implies that the subject is "real"; it merely
establishes that someone, rightly or wrongly, believed this and wrote
about it.
Which is precisely why it is not the only criterion.
only raised as a straw man: a ridiculous example of
something that
Oh please; you're re-writing my arguments, and then accusing me of using
improper debating tactics?
*plonk*
Maury
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