[WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution broken?

Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk
Tue Apr 29 18:34:05 UTC 2008


No, my point was that homeopathy is not science. The homeopathy editors generally do try to portray it as such. This is misleading.

CM

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> From: WJhonson at aol.com
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:31:28 -0400
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution broken?
> 
>  
> In a message dated 4/29/2008 11:25:34 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk writes:
> 
> My own  view is this: Wikipedia's dispute resolution process works fine when 
> it's case  of two or more good-faith contributors engaging in a genuine debate 
> over  something where debate is meaningful. The process is hopelessly 
> inadequate to  deal with editors who act tendentiously or not in good faith, or in  
> circumstances where there is no meaningful debate to be had  (homeopathy).>>
> 
> 
> -------------------
> This is a no-starter because of your phrasing.
> Those who have followed the debate as "journalists" and encyclopedists,  
> instead of adherents understand that the point of the homeopathists isn't to  
> conquer all the science articles.  But the point of the non-homeopathists  is to 
> destroy all the homeopathy articles.  Hardly the same position.
>  
> We are not a science project.  We are a project to document all human  
> "knowledge", to say homeopathy is not knowledge is tendentious.
>  
> Will Johnson
> 
> 
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