What you forget is that a person who knows that the magazine had a previous incarnation should be working toward NPOV by expanding the article to let us know about that previous life instead of deleting the article
I would agree. But that's not what was going on here. This was an article that covered one very small portion of the magazine's history, after a particularily interesting event. Don't get me wrong, I find the whole story quite facinating, it seems to involve an editor essentially hijaking an existing mechanism in order to radically change direction of the paper in order to print a series on Velikovsky. THAT is definitely worth writing about.
But that's _not_ what the article was about. The article basically ignored all of the history and simply talked about articles supporting Velikovsky. That belongs in an article on Velikovsky, not in an article on the magazine. In fact, the history _is_ already covered anyway.
It is sufficient to express that Velikovsky's ideas are significantly at odds with the mainstream.
Which the article failed to do.
A few discretely placed references will be enough to convince the thoughtful reader.
I think we need to be a little more obvious than that. My kid reads the wikipedia, she's six. She's going to need a lot more help than "A few discretely placed references".
At one time Velikovsky's books were very popular, and that is a fact that cannot be ignored.
*sigh* Come on Ray, I expect better than this... only a few sentances later you compain:
This suggests that you would make contemporary popularity a major criterion for deciding what to review. Verifiability in no way implies that the subject is "real"; it merely establishes that someone, rightly or wrongly, believed this and wrote about it.
Which is precisely why it is not the only criterion.
only raised as a straw man: a ridiculous example of something that
Oh please; you're re-writing my arguments, and then accusing me of using improper debating tactics?
*plonk*
Maury
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