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Personally I am uninterested in UFOs, parapsychology, and various fringe views in physics about plasma cosmology or cold fusion. |
Personally I am uninterested in UFOs, parapsychology, and various fringe views in physics about plasma cosmology or cold fusion. |
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The internet is full of paranoid crackpot conspiracies about the Bilderberg group, the secret genocidal plans to reduce the world population by 90 percent by the Secret World Government (which is controlled by the Freemasons), that HIV was developed by the Pentagon to kill the African population, that the Pentagon has ultra secret pacts with Aliens to allow mass abductions, that CIA and the Pentagon have mass implanted electronic devices in humans to exert mind control, |
The internet is full of paranoid crackpot conspiracies about the Bilderberg group, the secret genocidal plans to reduce the world population by 90 percent by the Secret World Government (which is controlled by the Freemasons), that HIV was developed by the Pentagon to kill the African population, that the Pentagon has ultra secret pacts with Aliens to allow mass abductions, that CIA and the Pentagon have mass implanted electronic devices in humans to exert mind control, blah blah blah. |
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As these Fringe views are unsupported by facts they can be kept out of Wikipedia with the existing Policies and Guidelines. That is why we have [[WP:Fringe]] and other policies. |
As these Fringe views are unsupported by facts they can be kept out of Wikipedia with the existing Policies and Guidelines. That is why we have [[WP:Fringe]] and other policies. |
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Revision as of 08:53, 25 April 2011
Proud initiator of the Cudos article, about norms for good scientific practice.
My view of the problems with Wikipedia
(in progress, Dec 2008)
Personally I am uninterested in UFOs, parapsychology, and various fringe views in physics about plasma cosmology or cold fusion.
The internet is full of paranoid crackpot conspiracies about the Bilderberg group, the secret genocidal plans to reduce the world population by 90 percent by the Secret World Government (which is controlled by the Freemasons), that HIV was developed by the Pentagon to kill the African population, that the Pentagon has ultra secret pacts with Aliens to allow mass abductions, that CIA and the Pentagon have mass implanted electronic devices in humans to exert mind control, blah blah blah.
As these Fringe views are unsupported by facts they can be kept out of Wikipedia with the existing Policies and Guidelines. That is why we have WP:Fringe and other policies.
The problem is that the alleged pro-science editors abuse these guidelines and push the balance too far in the other direction.
The idea that Wikipedia should be a “mainstream” dictionary and only represent the generally accepted establishment POV will kill Wikipedia as a dynamic evolving collaborative repository of all human knowledge for the Internet age. If a WP:Mainstream[1] was ever enacted it would make Wikipedia an incredible boring project. It also directly contradicts Jimbo Wales’s vision for Wikipedia:
““Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment.”
[2] appeal by Jimbo Wales
“Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.”.
[3] Obama acceptance speech
Jimbo Wales view:
“… the majority of Wikipedians prefers a degree of protection and kindness towards minority views, even those views which the majority of us might find to be silly.”.
[4] Jimbo Wales, (Dec 28th 2008)
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| I hereby award MaxPont this barnstar for his exemplary and tireless work throughout Wikipedia. His contributions and insights help make Wikipedia a better resource for all. -- Levine2112 discuss 17:33, 26 April 2007 (UTC) |