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Talk:Quoting out of context (view source)
Revision as of 11:31, April 22, 2007
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Yet, later on in the same chapter of his book, he explained how he believed it evolved anyway and that the ‘absurdity’ was illusory.[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/932/]}}
Yet, later on in the same chapter of his book, he explained how he believed it evolved anyway and that the ‘absurdity’ was illusory.[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/932/]}}
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 18:58, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 18:58, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
::Well, my whole point was I don't want this article to have a hidden agenda. Even if the ''idea'' for it was suggested to Ed by his seeing an example of an out-of-context quotation in an article here, this article should be ''about'' out of context quotation. It shouldn't be ''about'' making points or perpetuating some argument going on elsewhere.
::Even if it's a ''good'' example, and even if creationists have actually ''used'' it and even if they have said "touché" when it was pointed out, it is ''still'' tendentious. By including it in the article we'd be ''implicitly suggesting'' that there's some truth to the charge that "Creationists use quote mining."
::It's a veiled attack on creationists ''even if the average reader is unaware of it,'' and even if only the Conservapedia in-group sees it that way, and even if the creationists in the Conservapedia in-group agree that in this particular case the attack is justified, and even if the general charge that Creationists are prone to quote mining is richly deserved.
::Not ''everything'' in Conservapedia should being carrying an ideological message, or be related to internal point-scoring in arguments.
::Frankly, I wondered whether I should include the Charles E. Wilson example, but I figured it was old enough and familiar enough and ''unrelated to any ongoing argument here.'' This article should ''not'' include any examples relating to (say) Joseph McCarthy or John Kerry or, for that matter, Charles Darwin. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 07:31, 22 April 2007 (EDT)