Issuepedia:Wiki Issue Exploration Structure
This page is setup to help define a structure that allows issues to be debated or argued. Wikis offer a great opportunity to allow an improved debate format from email exchanges or spoken debates.
Overview
Whats the best way to have a debate about an issue? One can state an opinion/hypothesis and then provide facts that when taken together imply that result. Wiki's offer a great opportunity to debate in a structured format the presented facts and if they support the original opinion.
Wikipedia offers a good way to evaluate certain events or facts. Due to NPOV, NOR it is not a good medium for a exploration of the truth of certain arguments. Sometimes these debates are ad-hoc in the discussion pages. The fact that there is criticism of something may be listed without examining the validity of the criticism itself.
The page Clinton-Barak Israeli-Palestinian Peace Offers is an attempt to explore this issue and create a format for Wiki Arguments.
Structure
References
Wikipedia: Rhetoric and Composition/Argument