I second the nomination of CYD for admin!
I also want to urge Tim to go forward with his plan to get some involvement from the skeptic community, we need some informed skeptics to provide some balance on this issue.
-- Michael Becker
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tim Starling Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 3.08 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Crackpot articles
"Chong Yidong" cyd@stupidchicken.com wrote in message news:yr4cel0w4tbz.fsf@myth7.Stanford.EDU...
Hi there. I haven't posted to the list before, but I've been editing under the callsign "CYD" for for quite a while now.
You should be an admin. Hang on, I'll nominate you.
I'd like to point out a number of crackpot articles recently contributed by the user Reddi:
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Any suggestions about what to do?
We have to keep an eye on him. Note that most of his contributions need copyediting anyway, since his English isn't too good. Reddi seems to be a pleasant, courteous guy, so he's never going to get banned.
After coming across [[reciprocal system of theory]] for the first time just recently, and after personally spending a great deal of time on [[neutrosophy]] and other articles, I have a feeling we're losing the war on pseudoscience, mainly due to an insufficient number of motivated skeptical contributors. I've been giving serious thought to advertising our cause on the major skeptical community forums.
I don't really see any other way to do this, other than plain old-fashioned manpower. If any of these theories are truly idiosyncratic, we'll be able to save a lot of time if we can get them deleted. Other than that, we've just got to do the research, present the flaws, and contextualise.
-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau>
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