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

Wed Jun 15 08:21:19 UTC 2005

"Andrew Venier" <avenier at venier.net> wrote in 
message news:42AF8877.4070305 at venier.net...
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>> Andrew Venier wrote:
>>> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>>>> Jack Lynch wrote:
>>>>> Additionally, I, and assumably many others, read encyclopedias, and
>>>>> esp. the wikipedia, as a source of extremely obscure and bizarre info
>>>>> not to be found elsewhere.
>>>> Absolutely!  And I hope we can add much more.  If it's verified as 
>>>> having been proposed by somebody (which does not mean verifying that 
>>>> the guy's theories make any sense),  and properly sourced what more can 
>>>> we ask for.
>>> What ever happened to 
>>> [[WP:WIN#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information]]? 
>>> I thought that was official policy.
>> I said nothing about being indiscriminate with the various available 
>> nutcases.
> "If it's verified as having been proposed by somebody... and properly 
> sourced" is a standard that many, many nutjobs can meet.  Worthiness to be 
> included in an encyclopedia is "what more we can ask for."

If it's the kind of nut-job-ness that the average person is likely to be 
taken in by, then we have a responsibility to at least mention it, together 
with (presumably ample) evidence that the guy **is** a nut-job and why 
people should **not** be taken in.
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]