From: Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth(a)hi.is>
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.
[snip]
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.
Indeed; for example, there have been persistent attempts by a small number
of editors to remove Wikipedia all instances of the phrase "Conspiracy
theory", particularly in titles, in the name of "NPOV", and replace them
with various circumlocutions. Having generally failed at that, in some
cases they have restored to creating POV forks of articles which, for
example, list the commonly understood view of 9/11 (Al Qaeda hijackers) as
just another "conspiracy theory", on the grounds that it is a theory about a
conspiracy.
Jay.