[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee Seeking Comment

Tue Jun 7 03:23:22 UTC 2005

>From: "Tony Sidaway" <minorityreport at bluebottle.com>
>
>Fred Bauder said:
> > Folk with eccentric points of view such as splinter political parties
> > often maintain websites and sometimes even publish books.
> >
>
>Then those websites and books are pretty good references for their
>opinions.  I don't see a problem here.  A flat earth society website is an
>excellent reference for a description of the views of that society.

The lunatic fringe are typically easy enough to deal with; it's the more 
subtle cases that are harder to judge.  Why not bring up real-life, 
happening-today cases?  For example, this sourced statement 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Banu_Qurayza&diff=14817484&oldid=14816712], 
which was reverted from an article on the grounds that the author didn't 
have a Wikipedia article on him, one article editor had never heard of him 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ABanu_Qurayza&diff=14816692&oldid=14816611], 
and another simply didn't feel he was "notable" 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Banu_Qurayza&diff=next&oldid=14816692] 
  Now, Tony, how do you deal with this?  Is this published author notable 
enough to be quoted in the article?

Jay.