On 3/14/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Should we extend this to a general policy?
No. Allowing pedophile-fears to define our policy is an even more extreme example of letting the edge cases define the general than we already do. I emphatically do not agree with barring subject experts from participating in articles on their specialty, and that is what this kind of policy will end up doing. After all, it's hard to be an expert in anything and not have strong opinions about the topic, one way or another.
Rather, we should simply be strict about our existing policies like NPOV, and ensuring that pedophiles and their apologists do not get to slant articles in their direction - especially since theirs is an extreme minority viewpoint, and the NPOV policy states that views held by an extreme minority do NOT have to get equal space (or indeed any space, in some cases).
-Matt