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Explain how the legends relate to the belief system.
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Comparing this page to the Hoteps page, it seems that there have been requests to make that page more neutral despite already being relatively charitable ("they have been described as...") while this page outright refuses to be neutral on the matter. Is it not indicative of bias that we're seeing NPOV be implemented unequally? Xenosystem (talk) 09:59, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"The central tenets of British Israelism have been refuted by archaeological, ethnological, genetic, and linguistic research", particularly the word "refuted", breaks NPOV because it doesn't give enough due weight to the concepts being presented. For pseudoscientific and pseudo-religious theories and beliefs, the standard is closer to "The central tenets of British Israelism have been regarded as pseudo-scientific and refutable by archaeological, ethnological, genetic and linguistic research by mainstream sources". This gives enough weight to the theories without letting them off the hook as pseudoscience. Xenosystem (talk) 10:38, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Xenosystem: Then just make that edit per WP:BOLD. Personally, I don't have a problem with your suggested edit, although others may. But tagging for cleanup due to NPOV issues is not what that tag is for. There is an NPOV tag, but I would firmly disagree with you that it needs to be tagged for that, as nearly all of the critical section is solidly cited by WP:RS. Additionally, comparing to other articles is not considered a valid standard. ButlerBlog (talk) 10:56, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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