[WikiEN-l] CYD for admin (was Crackpot articles)

Sat Jul 12 15:47:26 UTC 2003

I second the nomination of CYD for admin!

I also want to urge Tim to go forward with his plan to get some
involvement from the skeptic community, we need some informed skeptics
to provide some balance on this issue.

--
Michael Becker

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Tim Starling
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 3.08
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Crackpot articles

"Chong Yidong" <cyd at stupidchicken.com> wrote
in message news:yr4cel0w4tbz.fsf at myth7.Stanford.EDU...
> Hi there. I haven't posted to the list before, but I've been editing 
> under the callsign "CYD" for for quite a while now.

You should be an admin. Hang on, I'll nominate you.

> I'd like to point out a number of crackpot articles recently 
> contributed by the user Reddi:

<snip>

> Any suggestions about what to do?

We have to keep an eye on him. Note that most of his contributions need
copyediting anyway, since his English isn't too good. Reddi seems to be
a pleasant, courteous guy, so he's never going to get banned.

After coming across [[reciprocal system of theory]] for the first time
just recently, and after personally spending a great deal of time on
[[neutrosophy]] and other articles, I have a feeling we're losing the
war on pseudoscience, mainly due to an insufficient number of motivated
skeptical contributors. I've been giving serious thought to advertising
our cause on the major skeptical community forums.

I don't really see any other way to do this, other than plain
old-fashioned manpower. If any of these theories are truly
idiosyncratic, we'll be able to save a lot of time if we can get them
deleted. Other than that, we've just got to do the research, present the
flaws, and contextualise.

-- Tim Starling <tstarlingphysicsunimelbeduau>

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