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The arbitration people try but when I was there they were far from perfect. Opting for "both sides" solutions. For example look up "The Mankind Quarterly"  you'll find it's a "scientific journal" but really a front for publishing racist science. I wanted it to excluded as a valid source. (so it couldn't be used as a citation to support neutral voice statements in articles) the ruling at the time was "no it's fine" 

That's what made me leave. I can't deal if that's a "source" 
 @134318c2 @fb39e5a2 @c4d83080 "Mankind Quarterly" sounds like a magazine about Whiskey, Fedoras, and Rugby (football is too low-class). They'd probably have pictures of shirtless men on the covers, which is TOTALLY STRAIGHT because they said "no homo" while they were publishing the magazine. 
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This is so much more wholesome than what it really is. And yeah, I get this wasn't meant to be wholesome. It's just that bad of a journal.