No matter how many people you can convince that
listing Article X under
[[Category:Pseudoscience]] does /not/ mean that Wikipedia takes the
stance that Topic X is a pseudoscience, the vast majority will assume
that it does.
And that is why people are complaining about those categorisations.
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Maybe the only way out of this is to call the categories something
unwieldy-but-NPOV like [[Category:Theories or beliefs widely considered
pseudoscience]]...
Once again. Do you object to [[Holocaust denial]]
being in the [[Pseudohistory]] category? Would you
prefer to have something "NPOV" like [[Category:Theories
or beliefs widely considered pseudohistory]]?
Such over-qualifications with the good intention
of being as NPOV as possible is something which
Wikipedia has too much of already.
My favorite example is this sentence which I found
on the [[Britney Spears]] article about two months
ago:
"Britney Spears is often regarded by many as
a controversial sexual figure"
In my opinion the following sentences are fine:
1. Britney Spears is a controversial sexual figure.
2. Holocaust denial is pseudohistory.
3. Creationism is pseudoscience.
And if someone uses Wikipedia in 50 years to demonstrate
to her friend that Creationism is pseudo-science that's
fine too. Because it is.
Regards,
Haukur