I agree with Yuri on this. The policy about negligible fringe view is used sometimes not to eliminate real nonsense, but to eliminate minority views of which one disapproves--especially pernicious when it's a group of editors owning an article and eliminating the views they personally would prefer to not exist.
It's very easy to say that a small group is negligible, or that one academic isn't important, no matter how much attention he may have gotten, or that one strange medical view has not gotten more than insignificant attention, by one's own idea of what to call insignificant.
I don't think people reliably make the distinction right on this when its things they care about very much; instead of relying on exceptional objectivity, it would be better to take people as they are and have the rule than any published view must be included.
On 8/10/07, Yury Tarasievich yury.tarasievich@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/08/07, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
2007/8/10, Yury Tarasievich yury.tarasievich@gmail.com:
I was rather asking about whether the oft-encountered attitude of "this author represents a side-taking-group which is "wrong" to quote in context of this article and so should not be included" is justifiable by the Five Pillars of Gods?
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I think it is justifiable, yes. The alternative would be to give every fringe theory 'equal representation' on Wikipedia. The only
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I wasn't talking about fringe (freakish) theories here, and anyway I see no definition of fringe theory on en:wp.
What's troubling me now is that what you say seems to me likecontradicting the following pieces in the WP:OR:
The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth.
In many cases, there are multiple established views of any given
topic. In such cases, no single position, no matter how well researched, is authoritative. It is not the responsibility of any one editor to research all points of view. But when incorporating research into an article, it is important that editors provide context for this point of view, by indicating how prevalent the position is, and whether it is held by a majority or minority.
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