Assuming you have published a book on the subject, yes. This is obvious nonsense, as you note. But it often applies to articles about living persons, whose 5 minutes of fame is often some trouble they go into. That may be the only published material on them. This creates a quite unbalanced article despite following Wikipedia policies. Information about the quiet peaceful and uneventful life they have lived is not acceptable as there is no published source.
Fred
On Mar 25, 2006, at 6:22 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
That's not logical. If there are no views expressed that challenge the premise, it necessarily represents the Neutral Point of View. A rebutting argument that is not verifiable is as good as no argument at all.
...so if I claim that there are gigantic hyperintelligent aliens made of lime jello living on a giant pumpkin orbiting Alpha Centauri and that they have five hands and one foot, and no-one makes a verifiable rebuttal, then my claim, being the only published view on the subject, represents the Neutral Point of View about hyperintelligent aliens made of lime jello?
I don't think that's quite what you meant.
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