[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is *already* written from a scientific POV

Skyring skyring at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 23:20:05 UTC 2005


On 7/1/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:

> > When we say "Homeopathy is a pseudoscience."
> > we are also providing information by writing
> > down a true statement. If I may paraphrase
> > a couple of sentences from a certain sci-fi
> > franchise:
> > "The first duty of every Wikipedian is to the truth,
> > scientific truth, historical truth and personal truth.
> > It is the guiding principle of Wikipedia."
> 
> This quotation may exist somewhere, but a Google search results in
> this return:
> 'Your search - Wikipedia "historical truth and personal truth" - did
> not match any documents'
> 
> Who says that and in what context?

It's easily found in Google, and the OP indicated it was a paraphrase:
"The first duty of a Wikipedian is to the truth--be it scientific
truth, historical
truth, PERSONAL truth.  It is the guiding principle on which Wikipedia was 
founded!"

-- 
Peter in Canberra



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