Original Research versus Point of View, was Re: [WikiEN-l] The3RR policy sho

David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Tue Jan 18 17:01:52 UTC 2005


JAY JG (jayjg at hotmail.com) [050119 03:52]:

> "Reliable references", there's the rub.  How do we establish that?  Just 
> today I've encountered someone who considered a blog to be a "reliable 
> reference".  A couple of days ago it was a "Israelis are Nazis" website.  
> Last week it was a Holocaust Denial website.  And of course, these people 
> consider any counter websites you bring to be "unreliable", "POV", 
> "propaganda", etc.  What do you do then?


The problems you're raising are problem people, hence not rapidly
susceptible to any sort of technical (e.g. revert like crazy) or policy
solution. The problem is how to cure POV-pushing.


- d.






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