[Wikipedia-l] Dealing with a crank

[Robert Graham Merkel]

It seems to me that 24.150.61.xxx doesn't really understand
the idea of the NPOV.  So far, they have wasted a considerable
amount of my time debating the "Artificial Intelligence" article (an
area in which I do have some actual expertise, having studied extensively
and actually having done a small amount of research in the area),
and it has become increasingly clear that this individual does
not understand the things they are discussing and are pushing
their own idiosyncratic line  - to take a simple example of their
lack of comprehension, they speak of proving the Church-Turing thesis,
which is not a theorem and can therefore never be proved.

If it were just me, I wouldn't be so quick to judge, but it seems
like they are annoying Axel and others just as much.

I believe some of the historians (JHK?) faced a similar problem
and tried just revising the article without bothering to debate
the issues.  Am I recalling correctly, and did it work?



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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk at mira.net

Go You Big Red Fire Engine
-- Unknown Audience Member at Adam Hills standup gig
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