A Committee to Deal with Content Issues Wikipedia does not seem to have any formal arbitration committee that deals with content. I have been involved in a number of cases in which such a committee would be exceedingly useful ( ADHD, Rorschach test, abortion, etc.). Currently I am involved in a dispute regarding the interpretation of the literature regarding Transcendental Meditation (TM) which has been going on for years. There are about 5 editors who admit to being practitioner of TM and only or mainly edit the subject area of TM. They have been using Wikipedia to promote this organization / religion. As they have been reasonably polite no actions were taken during the recent Arbitration case and ArbCom stated that it does not feel they should / are able to address content issues.
An RfC was filled with a couple of comments however the TMers felt that the comments were uninformed, insufficiently numerous, and therefore not relevant. An RfC is also not binding and has no method for enforcement. These editors have been taking turns reverting changes they disagree with. The question is should Wikipedia be written by those who are interested in writing a well referenced work of knowledge or by special interests who wish to push a particular point of view. Wikipedia currently does not have an effective method to deal with these types of special interest groups who are set on promotion or advertising. If Wikipedia is ever going to become well respected by academia it needs effective measures to deal with these sort of issue. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
