>Okay, so before the mid-20th century Wikipedia would have categorized the concept of plate tectonics as pseudoscience. I am almost certain they would of. The

>Okay, so before the mid-20th century Wikipedia would have categorized the concept of plate tectonics as pseudoscience. I am almost certain they would of. The "fringe" and "pseudoscience" labels are used much more broadly on Wikipedia then one might expect. I have seen a Palestinian scholar, whose research went against the prevailing Euro-centric Western view, labelled as "fringe" on Wikipedia even though it was being published by UNESCO and Cambridge University Press and he was by every metric a mainstream academic. The main editor's critique of his work was mainly ad-hominem and that it hadn't been acknowledged or "approved" by Western scholars. He didn't seem interested in verifying the texts that he cited and quoted; texts that the previous scholars were ignorant of. This was simply a case of a likely correct but minority view that was also difficult for an English speaking Westerner to verify, as the cited works were obscure and written in the 9th/10th century in Arabic. One of the few known manuscripts was located in a religious building in Turkey and not known to be available online in either scanned or transcribed form.