[WikiEN-l] Categories and NPOV

Sun Jun 26 20:34:47 UTC 2005

Some looney tunes old kook hears strange voices that he understands and
will respond to immediately when he gets time. The old buzzard hears the
call of distant relatives that live in his imagination. But he thinks he
has and understands his priorities.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Andrew Gray"
  To: "English Wikipedia"
  Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories and NPOV
  Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:12:18 +0100

  >
  > On 26/06/05, Fastfission wrote:
  >
  > > I've been defending the presence of [[Category:Pseudoscience]]
  for
  > > some time now as a sociological category, but it occurred to me
  today
  > > that one could imagine all sorts of circumstances in which it
  would
  > > seem hopelessly POV to have category labels of this sort (one
  could
  > > include things like [[Category:Hoaxes]] or
  [[Category:Conspiracies]]
  > > or whatever in this, if those categories exist), even if their
  actual
  > > articles (and even category pages) were written in perfect NPOV.
  Does
  > > the brevity of category labels make this impossible? I'm
  beginning to
  > > think they might, and that these sorts of categories should be
  > > converted wholly into lists. I wouldn't mind a [[List of Satanic
  > > lies]] which clearly noted who thought they were and included
  > > [[Evolution]] on the list. But I would mind having
  [[Category:Satanic
  > > lie]] put onto the Evolution page.
  > >
  > > Any input on this would be appreciated as I mull this over.
  >
  > I'm not sure how much use this is, but it strikes me as an
  > interesting example.
  >
  > A large number of people consider the Apollo landings to be a hoax
  -
  > I'm sure you've encountered them. We have many, many pages on the
  > Apollo program, the individual flights and associated topics. None
  of
  > these contain any significant discussion of the hoax theories - at
  > least, I haven't seen any.
  >
  > We also have [[Apollo moon landing hoax accusations]], which
  discusses
  > the various hoax theories, counterarguments, all that sort of
  thing.
  > *It* is categorised under "Conspiracy theories" & "Hoaxes" (so,
  yeah,
  > we have both)...
  >
  > --
  > - Andrew Gray
  > andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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