On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:48:36 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
There is certainly a strong element of he-said-she-said, but I wouldn't worry about that. That can be constrained by keeping both sides from carrying on endlessly.
You have a mechanism for this? In my experience both sides will rush to Wikipedia every time their preferred expert drops some new pearl of wisdom, in an attempt to make their side the more compelling overall within the argument.
It is not the function of Wikipedia to be either promoting or debunking theories. Doing either of these would be jumping on one side's POV bandwagon. I tried to look up aetherometry just to see what it is but we currently do not have an article about it.
Yes, exactly that. We deleted Aetherometry after endless arguments because the theory itself was unpublished and lacked any independent discussion.
Guy (JzG)