Dnia Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:40:20 +0100, Milos Rancic napisał(a):
NPOV is a
global policy across all projects and is older than the
foundation or wikibooks. It is non-negotiable from the start.
But, where to put something like "Impressionist analysis of Orwell's
1984."? This is useful for learning about a book, but this is
inherently POV.
So, where to put such papers?
The problem with essays is that you can find many people having different opinions on the
same topic and therefore able to write different essays covering this topic. These essays
can contradict themselves. Wikimedia projects were created to provide readers with
accurate knowledge; you can always correct factual errors in essays but you cannot correct
personal interpretation of the facts. There will always be fundamental conflicts between
various essays, people may argue about them endlessly and I think it's not what we
want. Prohibition of expressing personal point of view in Wikimedia projects is a
protection against self-promotion of amateur authors and nonsenses in their writing.
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