[WikiEN-l] Articles on Alleged homophobia?

Sun Apr 3 18:05:57 UTC 2005

Completely agreed as well.

>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?

[WikiEN-l] Articles on Alleged homophobia?