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> Just add another paragraph to that page explaining the scientific consensus that anally penetrating yourself with silver won't cure cancer.

So you have multiple articles on the subject of cancer treatment, all repeating the same information and all needing to be updated one by one? Because my point was what Wikipedia now calls a 'POV Fork', or a new article explicitly created to push a specific POV as opposed to being NPOV.

Also, you're hitting up against something that inclusionists also complain about: Their pet POV Forks, the articles they demand to be allowed to own, keep getting deleted because Wikipedia already has NPOV coverage of that topic! Shame and infamy! Shame! And! Infamy!

> You might even vote to move that entire section to a page of its own.

I think that's pretty much the definition of a POV Fork, unless I misunderstand you.

> Either response will take a lot less time and effort for everyone involved

Not if you want all the articles on a given subject to be intelligent, factual, and balanced. Then you have to turn each and every (attempted) POV Fork into an NPOV article that's a clone of the article it forked off from.



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