Over at Wikipedia, the complex arbitration on science and pseudoscience editing has come to an end. Without commenting on any of the parties involved, I just want to say that the outcome - with various people being cautioned, put on probation of diferent sorts, or being banned from writing about themselves and their own work - looks pretty fair and measured overall. Importantly, it has shown an admirable concern to maintain the integrity of Wikipedia's science articles, protecting them from the disproportionate incorporation of points of view from fringe science.
I am also impressed at how rapidly the related matter of the "ScienceApologist" case seems to be progressing. The proposed decisions and remedies seem, in a word, judicious.
ReplyDeleteThe Arbitration Committee has good people, I think.