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Intelligent design

Hi. If you want to insert an {{NPOV}} tag (and I think you really wanted {{sectNPOV}} you need to explain specifically how the section violates NPOV. Given the amount of trolling that page attracts, it would be much better if you could raise the issues on the Talk page first. The best thing to do is to outline the specific changes you would like to make, and why. Thanks. Guettarda 22:12, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I actually was referring to the factual accuracy, not POV (though the article does have POV problems). The section I was referring to did have factual errors in both philosophy of science and in some cases even intelligent design. (Criticizing ID is one thing, distorting what ID theory actually says is quite another.) BTW, I have already gone to the discussion page first. --Wade A. Tisthammer (11/3/2005)


  • My point is that you need to explain your problem with the section. You can't just say it's "factually inaccurate" - you need to address what's wrong with it. These tags are a last resort, not a starting place. You need to start by outlining your problems with the section and how you would change it. What is factually inaccurate?
In addition, factully correct is POV. Everything is POV. NPOV is a matter of producing a balanced statement which takes into account the major POVs, and presents them is a wat that does not make fringe views seem more mainstream than they really are, nor does it make the mainstream seem more marginal than it really it. Guettarda 23:02, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I did explain my problem with the section. And if "factually correct" is POV, and if everything is POV, why do we have the factual-dispute tag? Wade A. Tisthammer 23:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC)