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FYI in addition to the very controversial opinions, there's also the one from the Tzitz Eliezar, a well-respected Orthodox Posek, who uses the concept to permit wearing a hearing aide on Shabbat. Regardless, the criteria for Wikipedia is WP:Notability, and bad ideas can be every bit as notable as good ones. Certainly the article should note both sides in the argument over whether application of the concept to a particular claim is legitimate or not. So far as I know, nobody in Orthodox Judaism has accepted the Conservative opinion as holding any water, and a Conservative Rabbi (Joel Roth wrote a vigorous counter-opinion saying the argument didn't hold any water even from a Conservative point of view. Whether the development represents the kinds of evil Jeremiah spoke about when he used the phrase ""broken cisterns"" (Jeremiah 2:13), WP:N is satisfied."