On 8/8/06, Dabljuh <dabljuh(a)gmx.net> wrote:
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:16:05 -0400
"The Cunctator" <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wikipedia has, and naturally should, a strong
bias towards verifiable
information.
Here I disagree. When someone reads anything on Wikipedia that goes
against social consensus (the mainstream view, if you want),
increasingly, the first reaction is to go "Oh Wikipedia's got it wrong!"
[snip]
I disagree with a certain interpretation of NPOV that basically
says that the mainstream view should be viewed as the right POV.
The only POV that can claim to be the rightest of all, is the one
that is supported by most of the evidence - not the number of
people who believe it. I would go as far as promoting a
"scientific point of view" in favor of NPOV.
And to imply Wikipedia had a bias in favor of scientific opinion
instead of popular, is simply delusional tbh.
I'm not sure how you think you're disagreeing with me. I wrote:
"Wikipedia has, and naturally should, a strong bias towards verifiable
information."
You wrote:
"The only POV that can claim to be the rightest of all, is the one
that is supported by most of the evidence - not the number of people
who believe it."
Verifiability flows from evidence.