Some looney tunes old kook hears strange voices that he understands and will respond to immediately when he gets time. The old buzzard hears the call of distant relatives that live in his imagination. But he thinks he has and understands his priorities.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Gray" To: "English Wikipedia" Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories and NPOV Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:12:18 +0100
On 26/06/05, Fastfission 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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- Andrew Gray
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