[WikiEN-l] My views on policies and debates over content
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Fri Jun 10 22:46:20 UTC 2005
James D. Forrester wrote:
>[[Sollog]] believes himself to be the son of God (AIUI, or God
>himself, or something), and there are very few, perhaps no, people who hold
>this opinions of him; thus, we would not mention his claim in the article,
>as it is inappropriately giving time and hence credence to a cause that does
>not warrant it. This, indeed, is exactly what we do do. Common sense seems
>to have triumphed. :-)
>
>
>>>I've never said that only one POV should be represented, only that
>>>extreme minority POVs shouldn't be.
>>>
>>>
>>This is still treating truth as a numbers game. Sometimes great
>>scientific discoveries have come from people who stubbornly maintained
>>their opinions on a discovery. Verifiability is a more important
>>criterion than being the position of a small minority. Some
>>people who held the ridiculous minority notion that the earth went
>>around the sun were severely persecuted at one time.
>>
>>
>So? It's not our job to trumpet minor views "just in case" they turn out to
>be correct all along. Yes, we're "treating truth as a numbers game": it's
>called showing editorial judgement.
>
>
If Sollog is the only source of evidence for his being God he has a
verifiability problem. Under those circumstances being a part of a
minority is moot.
Ec
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