Including only material in an article which is within the accepted canon of
knowledge is one of the Wikipedia editing guidelines. I think it means facts
which are accepted by scholars in the field.
Fred
From: Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)earthlink.net>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:34:40 -0800
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: why an average person would wish to ruin a good
article?
There's an ACCEPTED CANON OF KNOWLEDGE? Wow, I had no idea! Where is it,
and how can I get my hands on it? Why hasn't anybody deleted everything
in Wikipedia yet and replaced it with this CANON? (sarcasm alert)