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
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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