[WikiEN-l] My views on policies and debates over content

Fri Jun 10 22:46:20 UTC 2005

James D. Forrester wrote:

>[[Sollog]] believes himself to be the son of God (AIUI, or God
>himself, or something), and there are very few, perhaps no, people who hold
>this opinions of him; thus, we would not mention his claim in the article,
>as it is inappropriately giving time and hence credence to a cause that does
>not warrant it. This, indeed, is exactly what we do do. Common sense seems
>to have triumphed. :-)
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>>>I've never said that only one POV should be represented, only that
>>>extreme minority POVs shouldn't be.
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>>>
>>This is still treating truth as a numbers game.  Sometimes great
>>scientific discoveries have come from people who stubbornly maintained
>>their opinions on a discovery.  Verifiability is a more important
>>criterion than being the position of a small minority.  Some
>>people who held the ridiculous minority notion that the earth went
>>around the sun were severely persecuted at one time.
>>    
>>
>So? It's not our job to trumpet minor views "just in case" they turn out to
>be correct all along. Yes, we're "treating truth as a numbers game": it's
>called showing editorial judgement.
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>
If Sollog is the only source of evidence for his being God he has a 
verifiability problem.  Under those circumstances being a part of a 
minority is moot.

Ec