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lhsi writes:
A petition on Change.org was created: "Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia: Create and enforce new policies that allow for true scientific discourse about holistic approaches to healing."
Jimmy Wales
responded.
No, you have to be kidding me. Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful.
Wikipedia's policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately. What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse". It isn't.
(Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:59PM
"I notice all(?) religious articles on Wikipedia are presented as fact."
You'd need to expand on that, or provide some quotes / cites. I glanced at the Japanese Zen and Hinduism articles and saw a lot of stuff like this:
"Reginald Horace Blyth (1898–1964) was an Englishman who went to Japan in 1940 to further his study of Zen"
I don't think there's much disagreement about Blyth dying in '64, or going to Japan in '40. I also see some documentation of what various people reportedly believe.
Didn't see much along the lines of proselytizing or portraying mythology as fact.
The worst stuff I could find that might fit your definition, would be honest disagreements in opinion along the line of :
"Some of the more prominent Rinzai Zen centers in North America include ..."
I don't disagree with this particular detail, or think it a bad idea to try to categorize into more prominent and inherently not more prominent, but I can see how resentment could happen from not meeting the cutoff for being listed, or similar. And that's the worst I could find in a short search.
Even worse, I'm not religious, so I'd likely be inherently biased to search for falsehood, and I didn't find much worth noting in a short search.