Dispute resolution with respect to POV pushers may work if you focus on What
Wikipedia is not, the clause about propaganda and advocacy. For evidence you
need to show repeated removal of well referenced information which the POV
pusher is trying to remove and repeated insertions of poorly or unreferenced
information the POV pusher is trying to add.
This is not "content arbitration". Under our NPOV policy all well referenced
material is admissible. Subtle matters such as which comes first, what gets
its own section in the article, etc remain. POV pushers, in my experience,
focus on keeping out negative information regarding their cause, attempting
to attack the legitimacy of information sources others advance while
simulaneously advancing lame references of their own.
Fred
From: Tim Starling
<t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:55:58 +1100
To: wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: A Solution to Larry Sanger's Criticisms - Project
Has Been Around For A While
I think the experience of academics on Wikipedia is much the same as the
experience of non-specialists on Wikipedia, or of academics acting as
non-specialists. Academics, as well as other non-insane people, must
fight with various kinds of looneys if they want the Wikipedia article
in question to be accurate and neutral. Dispute resolution only works
where the POV-pushers also break rules of behaviour, otherwise the only
solution is to fight forever. Put the article on your watchlist, revert
and argue for as long as you both shall live. In the case of popular
articles, there's a constant stream of new POV-pushers, so you have to
keep arguing and fighting even after the original warriors have gotten
bored and left.
Larry Sanger wants a shortcut out of this process for experts. I would
prefer having a shortcut even for non-experts. Various models have been
proposed in the past, "content arbitration" is a particularly neat term
for it.
-- Tim Starling
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