[WikiEN-l] William Connelley no longer neutral contributor

[Fred Bauder]

The statement in question is this:

SEPP (or Fred Singer) has also commented on the question of [[Ozone
depletion]], making the clearly false assertion that the statement "CFCs
with lifetimes of decades and longer become well-mixed in the atmosphere,
percolate into the stratosphere, and there release chlorine." is
controversial [http://www.sepp.org/ozone/ozonefranklin.html].

This seems unobjectionable. There is certainly no credible evidence to the
contrary.

Fred

> From: "Allan Crossman" <a.crossman at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:15:39 -0000
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] William Connelley no longer neutral contributor
> 
>> I'm just saying that if he's going to edit a Wikipedia article to
>> say that some POV he personally opposes is "clearly false",
>> then he himself should be cited as the source of that POV.
> 
> So if I write "Joe Bloggs holds the clearly false view that the Earth
> is flat" I'm violating NPOV? No I'm not, because in that case it
> really is clearly false - though it could do with being rewritten for
> a more sympathetic, encyclopedic style. But NPOV isn't the problem
> there.
> 
> In order to show that William Connolley's edit is POV, you have to
> show that the claim he says is "clearly false" is in fact a serious
> point of contention in the relevant field.
> 
> NPOV is only an issue for claims that are not yet proven or disproven
> to the satisfaction of the vast majority of the relevant experts.
> You'll have to show that what William says is in fact in a serious
> state of dispute in the field. It may or may not be. You've provided
> no evidence on the matter.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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