[Wikipedia-l] pitching an idea

[David Gerard]

Wouter Steenbeek (musiqolog at hotmail.com) [050418 03:20]:

> Steve's proposal is interesting and can be defended from a philosophical 
> point of view. Indeed most philosophers involved with science agree that 
> objectivity is an illusion, and the quasi-objectivity we reach in e.g. 
> encyclopaedias is only a broad consensus within one culture.


Except the ones who are actually scientists. "Sorry, evolution has been
voted out of science."


> On some 
> topics, everyone agrees, on other ones, people hold divergent views. That 
> justifies splitting a controversial topic.


Well, only splitting as sections in an article.


- d.