[WikiEN-l] Re: Articles on Alleged homophobia?

Mon Apr 4 01:08:03 UTC 2005

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

I would be opposed to an article called "Persecution of Christians". 
Rewording for a more NPOV title would be best. Just like I opposed 
[[Christian views of women]].

TBSDY

[WikiEN-l] Re: Articles on *Alleged* homophobia?

[WikiEN-l] Re: Articles on Alleged homophobia?