You can document what other people have said about these things (moon hoax, reptilian humanoids, flat earth etc) as long as it is in the context of reporting what someone has claimed. Mark
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Sean Barrett wrote:
The article [[The League of Distinguished
Gentlemen]] purports to
describe a secret society at Creighton University.
It clearly was
written by the secret society himself and is
currently listed for
deletion. A popular reason given in the votes for
deletion is
"unverifiable," the rebuttal to which is "you
can't verify it because
it's a /truly/ secret secret society!"
All of which is only mildly amusing, but did lead
me to contemplate
the possibility of a /real/ truly secret secret
society. Even if such
an Illuminatus really did exist, and someone
really were able to
penetrate it, it seems to me that the resulting
expos� would be
original research, and not appropriate for
Wikipedia.
Thus, it seems to me that all unverifiable claims
about secret
societies are logically either (A) untrue, in which case they should be deleted,
or
(2) true, in which case they are original research
and should be deleted.
Comments?
It's a bit like talking about conspiracy theories, or the cabal that controls Wikipedia. :-)
Ec
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