- People have continued to say, over the years, that if we dignify
fringe theories with any better treatment than utter condemnation, they'll infect all the mainstream articles. They bring up [[flat earth]] or [[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]] (PEZ) as examples. But we already have a policy for these topics which works well and is stable.
Ideas held by a partisan minority are labelled "held by a minority", and that minority is identified. Believers in a flat earth, by the way, are so few that none has ever graced our hallowed halls. Lots of Arabs, though, believe (or frequently hear their government-sponsored media say) that the PEZ is authentic. The way we treat PEZ is to say that
Lots of Americans and Europeians though, belive (or frequently hear their government-sponsored media say) that lots of Arabs belive that the PEZ is authentic.
- Western historians dismiss PEZ as a fabrication, although several
Islamic nations officially support it.
* Islamic historians dismiss the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a fabrication, although several Western governments officially support that view.
It's all in the eyes of the beholder
BL