[WikiEN-l] Articles on Alleged homophobia?

Sun Apr 3 15:23:49 UTC 2005

I agree.  You could say that most things are 'alleged' by some
people...alleged racism, alleged holocaust, alleged slavery, etc.

If we named all our other articles like that, then it might make sense,
but as things are right now, I'm pretty sure we just simplify all titles
to make them definitive, and indicate any uncertainties in the article.

If the contributor is suggesting that homophobia doesn't exist, then
they can put it in as a section of the article; that is, of course, if
they have enough evidence to back it up.  Similarly, if they think that
the Nation of Islam isn't anti-semitic, they should add that as a
section in the article.  IMHO, prefixing all titles with 'alleged' adds
confusion and is completely unnecessary.

-Faraaz Damji

Robert wrote:
> Suppose a new contributor comes here and decides that most
> or all cases of homophobia really do not exist, and it is
> just those over-sensitive gay people that caused the
> article to be titled [[Homophobia]]. Would it be Ok for
> them to retitle this article to [[Alleged homophobia]]?  I
> would think mot.
> 
> Similarly. would it be Ok for people to start renaming our
> articles such as:
> 
> [[Alleged anti-Arabism]]?
> 
> [[Alleged Islamophobia]]?
> 
> [[Allegend Persecution of Christians]]?
> 
> I would think not. Unfortunately, Firebug is trying to do
> this for [[Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism]].  It seems
> to me that this renaming shows bias, and violates NPOV
> policy by using the title of the article to dismiss any
> possibility that facts actually exist within it. It also is
> totally out of line with how we name all of our other
> articles. 
> 
> Thus, unless we rename all of our other articles in a
> similar way, this one article should not be an exception.
> 
> 
> RK
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[WikiEN-l] Articles on *Alleged* homophobia?

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