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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups. Legobot ( talk) 00:06, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
If you're curious about the history, MEDRS disallows "personal objections" to funding sources because of empirical results. We have had people try to disallow meta-analyses and other review articles on the grounds that these reviews included studies with funding sources that the editor disapproved of. Those editors tend to be unusually extreme POV pushers, and the result tends to be extraordinarily biased articles. For example, we had one person try to disallow all peer-reviewed articles from surgeons, in an article about a surgery, on the grounds that the surgeons made money from doing the surgery.
When we "accept" sources despite funding (or, more precisely, refuse to reject them merely because an editor is here to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS), then the result is usually much more balanced article, e.g., "Industry says X, but critics say Y" rather than "Critics say Y, and nothing else matters." WhatamIdoing ( talk) 00:04, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
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This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups. Legobot ( talk) 00:06, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
If you're curious about the history, MEDRS disallows "personal objections" to funding sources because of empirical results. We have had people try to disallow meta-analyses and other review articles on the grounds that these reviews included studies with funding sources that the editor disapproved of. Those editors tend to be unusually extreme POV pushers, and the result tends to be extraordinarily biased articles. For example, we had one person try to disallow all peer-reviewed articles from surgeons, in an article about a surgery, on the grounds that the surgeons made money from doing the surgery.
When we "accept" sources despite funding (or, more precisely, refuse to reject them merely because an editor is here to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS), then the result is usually much more balanced article, e.g., "Industry says X, but critics say Y" rather than "Critics say Y, and nothing else matters." WhatamIdoing ( talk) 00:04, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox language. Legobot ( talk) 00:07, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Caste system in India. Legobot ( talk) 00:08, 11 December 2015 (UTC)