On 26/06/05, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've been defending the presence of
[[Category:Pseudoscience]] for
some time now as a sociological category, but it occurred to me today
that one could imagine all sorts of circumstances in which it would
seem hopelessly POV to have category labels of this sort (one could
include things like [[Category:Hoaxes]] or [[Category:Conspiracies]]
or whatever in this, if those categories exist), even if their actual
articles (and even category pages) were written in perfect NPOV. Does
the brevity of category labels make this impossible? I'm beginning to
think they might, and that these sorts of categories should be
converted wholly into lists. I wouldn't mind a [[List of Satanic
lies]] which clearly noted who thought they were and included
[[Evolution]] on the list. But I would mind having [[Category:Satanic
lie]] put onto the Evolution page.
Any input on this would be appreciated as I mull this over.
I'm not sure how much use this is, but it strikes me as an interesting example.
A large number of people consider the Apollo landings to be a hoax -
I'm sure you've encountered them. We have many, many pages on the
Apollo program, the individual flights and associated topics. None of
these contain any significant discussion of the hoax theories - at
least, I haven't seen any.
We also have [[Apollo moon landing hoax accusations]], which discusses
the various hoax theories, counterarguments, all that sort of thing.
*It* is categorised under "Conspiracy theories" & "Hoaxes" (so,
yeah,
we have both)...
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