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| What I'm not sure about is if a tertiary source like WP should write about another tertiary source like EB. I think not. ] 13:29, 1 August 2005 (UTC) | What I'm not sure about is if a tertiary source like WP should write about another tertiary source like EB. I think not. ] 13:29, 1 August 2005 (UTC) | ||
| :Our own ] article should have something to describe the anthropologists view(s). Slrubinstein and I were pretty thorough with that article. --] 13:33, August 1, 2005 (UTC) | |||
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not an experiment
this is not an experiment. rather, it is a collaborative writing effort between a group of relatively slow writers. more text is coming soon... --Rikurzhen 03:39, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
WP examples
I pulled the starting material for this article from the example of Global warming controversy. --Rikurzhen 03:49, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
a list of examples --Rikurzhen 21:58, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
- science
- culture
- history
sources
- The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy by Mark Snyderman, Stanley Rothman
Is EncBib a source?
And we use a tertiary source? The articles about Race in Encyclopeda Britannica would be a good source for what-we-could-call the anthropology POV. Here, just to give you a taster, is the first paragraph of one of the sections:
The scientific debate over “race”
Although their numbers are dwindling, some scientists continue to believe that it is possible to divide Homo sapiens into discrete populations called races. They believe that the physical differences manifest in wide geographic regions are more than superficial; they reflect innate intellectual, moral, emotional, and other behavioral differences among human groups. They deny that social circumstances and the cultural realities of racism have any affect on behaviour or the performance of children and adults on IQ tests.
It goes on like that. A veritable goldmine of well-presented viewpoints held by anthropologists and a large section of academia. Unfortuntately, EncBib is poorly sourced, I would prefer to be able to point to the primary and secondary sources that the author (Audrey Smedley, author of Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview) uses for her overview. But maybe we could use something like that for the overview of public opinion and media portrayal? (We still need any source for what the unwashed masses think.)
What I'm not sure about is if a tertiary source like WP should write about another tertiary source like EB. I think not. Arbor 13:29, 1 August 2005 (UTC)