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Wikipedia defines an attack page as "a page, in any namespace, that primarily exists to disparage or threaten its subject." [WP:ATTACK]
This is the case here.
The page was created with the phrase "...who is the editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly, a journal which publishes content endorsing scientific racism and eugenics." The statement that the person is editor of the Mankind Quarterly is factually correct, but the claim that the journal endorses "scientific racism and eugenics" is (1) not verifiable because these terms have no generally accepted meanings. They represent not even specific opinions and are rarely used for any other purpose than as slurs to slander the people to whom they are attached. (2) The claim is unfounded because the journal states on its website that "the often contradictory views that are represented in the Mankind Quarterly are those of the individual authors, not those of the journal’s publishers or editors." (www.mankindquarterly.org/about) Serious academic journals must tolerate viewpoint diversity and publish alternative theories that are those of the individual authors. (3) Inspection of articles from the journal that are publicly available on Researchgate, Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.com) and other sources shows no unusual density of articles that can be construed as "endorsing scientific racism and eugenics" in whatever meaning. These easily accessible sources rather show that some articles propose biological or genetic explanations for their findings while others propose social or environmental ones. The balance between these is in no way unusual. (4) The author of the page claims that the journal "publishes content endorsing scientific racism and eugenics" (present tense) but supports this with old references which date from about the time of the Bell Curve Wars. These sources can only be based on events that happened in a rather distant past, not the recent past or the present, even if they have any basis in fact. (5) The cited references are antihereditarian polemics that are not scholarly but rhetorical in nature and do not provide specific evidence for their lurid claims. A polemic is not meant to present facts, but to express or incite hate. Perusal of these references by the author of this bio confirms that this is his intent. He simply repeats slurs that had been published in these sources. Even if these references were recent, they would therefore not provide substantive support for the claim made by the author.
This bio was created with malicious intent, is slanderous, and provides no useful information. It should therefore be removed immediately.
Additional:
1. On https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_light it says: "False light is a tort concerning privacy that is similar to the tort of defamation. The privacy laws of the United States include a non-public person's right to protection from publicity which puts the person in a false light to the public." The stated definition is fulfilled in this case.
2. Vandalism is defined by Wikipedia as "editing (or other behaviour) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia, in a variety of languages, presenting the sum of human knowledge". This editor uses Wikipedia as a soapbox for his hatreful rhetoric, and obstructs Wikipedia by presenting slurs as if they were facts.Anamika1988 (talk) 16:28, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- Anamika1988, if you genuinely believe this article to be an attack page, then please place the db-attack template on the article itself, not on its talk page (i.e. this page). I have added nowiki tags around the template in this section header so this page won't be wrongly tagged in the meantime. IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 16:31, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- Apparently, he is the editor-in-chief of an academic journal, which makes him a notable researcher according to the guidelines. As for the article as it stands, there is obvious undue weight on controversy. In order to avoid speedy deletion, this needs to be corrected. Narssarssuaq (talk) 12:16, 17 August 2018 (UTC)