From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net>
Establishing the truth of a proposition, however obvious, as this is, is
not the purpose of Wikipedia, nor the purpose of categories. Categories
are an aid to the reader to in finding information.
To take an example from a current arbitration case (Yoder); He removed the
category "Geography of Israel" from the article on Golan Heights. His view
was that having the article in that category established or somehow
endorsed Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights. However the purpose of
the category is to point the reader to the articles which have information
which falls into the category, not to establish a fact.
Just to clarify, Fred is referring to User:Yuber.
Jay.
Likewise [[cold fusion]] may be included in the Category Pseudo- science,
without us knowing whether or not it can occur. It is enough that a the
category is a useful guide to the reader. That can mean that articles may
fall into contradictory categories, as it is not an exercise in logic but
in finding information.
Fred
On Jun 30, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
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.
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