Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
There are many people who disagree with this. We try to describe their positions fairly in separate articles, e.g. [[Creationism]]. The article on creationism may try to be scrupulously fair to the creationists but the bottom line is that Wikipedia has *already* acknowledged the scientific facts as superior to the creationist theories (at least the "Young Earth" variety) by including them in main articles like [[Earth]].
Including [[Creationism]] in [[Category:Pseudoscience]] is just icing on a cake that has already been baked.
It's particularly foul-smelling icing, though. NPOV certainly is compatible with not giving minority or conspiracy-theory opinions undue weight by inserting them everywhere or making them seem as if they're mainstream, but at the same time outright name-calling is a little inappropriate. Saying, as Wikipedia, that Creationism is pseudoscience is across the line of good taste I think. Not mentioning the young-earth theory in the intro to [[Earth]] may imply that we judge it as not being a serious scientific position, but outright saying "Creationism is a load of horse-shit" is a little more inappropriate.
-Mark